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Appeals court reverses sex assault convictions due to juror who was distracted by traumatic event
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week reversed a man’s Boulder County sexual assault convictions and ordered a new trial because one juror was distracted after witnessing a fatal accident and missed key portions of testimony. A jury convicted Curtis James DiMarco in 2021 of numerous child sex offenses and he received a sentence of 60 years…
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Appeals court upholds 2 murder convictions, rejecting complaints about jurors’ use of devices
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Colorado’s second-highest court recently upheld the murder convictions of two defendants who claimed it was inappropriate that jurors were allowed to simulate the pressure of a trigger-pull with a mechanical device and to use a calculator during deliberations. In the first case out of Denver, a jury convicted Samuel J. Robinson of second-degree murder for…
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Boulder man’s attempted sex assault convictions overturned due to detectives’ actions
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A Boulder man will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court determined last month that a pair of detectives improperly detained and interrogated him about an attempted sex assault instead of simply collecting his DNA as a court authorized them to do. Angel Adrian Castro-Velasquez is serving 18 years to life in prison on…
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Appeals court agrees Boulder County judge needed to look into attorney’s alleged unauthorized practice
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed earlier this month that a Boulder County judge mistakenly rejected a man’s petition for postconviction relief when she should have looked into his allegation that his defense lawyer represented him despite being unauthorized to practice law. David Keith McCoy pleaded guilty in 2012 to organized crime and drug possession charges and…
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In light of recent gas patch events, Boulder casts Coffman court case as absurd
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Boulder County’s moratorium on new oil and gas drilling expires in three days — but the lawsuit seeking to lift that moratorium will continue, for now. On Wednesday, Boulder District Judge Norma Sierra denied the county’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed early in the year by state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and…
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Boulder asks court to dismiss drilling lawsuit, calls complaint moot
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The Boulder County versus the state of Colorado oil-and-gas lawsuit may not make it to court. The county on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss the complaint filed last month by Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman in which she demanded the county lift its ban on new drilling projects. In its motion, Boulder argued that…