Judge Stephen Groome
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Colorado Supreme Court overturns judge’s prohibition on using victim’s journals as evidence
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Friday overturned a judge’s order that prohibited Boulder County prosecutors from using the 25-year-old journal entries of an alleged victim to prove the defendant committed sexual assault on a child. In a brief April 25 order, the justices rejected the notion that the district attorney’s office should have allowed the…
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Appeals court, prosecution, defense all agree judge violated Routt County defendant’s right to counsel
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After the government and the defense both expressed rare agreement that a judge failed to ensure a Routt County defendant validly gave up his right to counsel, Colorado’s second-highest court ordered a redo of the proceedings on Thursday. Jurors convicted Movses Mikaelyan in 2023 for the unauthorized use of a financial device. Shortly afterward, his…
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Colorado justices to examine whether alleged victim’s ‘dream journal’ should be barred from trial
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The Colorado Supreme Court signaled last week that it may intervene in an ongoing prosecution out of Boulder County in which a trial judge has prohibited prosecutors from using an alleged sex assault victim’s childhood journal at trial, containing evidence of her abuse. One week before Mark Allan Hochwender was scheduled to face trial on…