Judge Melissa Meirink
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Appeals court agrees defendant’s speech constitutionally protected against El Paso County judge
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed last week that a defendant’s critical statements toward an El Paso County judge were constitutionally protected and could not form the basis of a retaliation charge. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel concluded that, in context, Ashley Hernandez’s brief confrontation with District Court Judge Diana May in a courthouse elevator did…
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‘Serve and not to be served’: Melissa Meirink ceremonially sworn in as newest appeals judge
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When Melissa C. Meirink was young and had something to complain about, her grandmother replied, “While you’re crying out of one eye, there are people crying out of two.” “She put things in perspective for me in a way that made me really think about others. My abuelita and my mom really instilled a service-oriented…