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Jeffco student may pursue defamation claims against sex assault accusers, appeals court rules
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A former student of Evergreen High School may proceed with his defamation claims against two of his classmates and their mothers for calling him a “predator” and an assailant to school officials, even after he had been acquitted of criminal charges related to sexual misconduct. The decision from the state’s Court of Appeals last week…
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Denver judge who once prosecuted defendant was not biased, appeals court rules
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A man serving 414 years in prison has not shown his lawyer was ineffective for failing to ask the trial judge – who previously prosecuted the defendant – to recuse herself, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. Relatedly, a three-member panel for the Court of Appeals agreed the judge was not actually biased against Scott Shorts, despite her…
