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Appeals judge trains fire on Colorado Supreme Court’s landmark restitution ruling
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One member of Colorado’s second-highest court has mounted an unusual effort in recent weeks to broadcast his dissatisfaction with a state Supreme Court decision that resulted in scores of financial restitution orders to crime victims being overturned on appeal. In Colorado, when a convicted defendant is required to pay restitution, prosecutors typically must provide the…
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Appeals judge trains fire on Colorado Supreme Court’s landmark restitution ruling
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One member of Colorado’s second-highest court has mounted an unusual effort in recent weeks to broadcast his dissatisfaction with a state Supreme Court decision that resulted in scores of financial restitution orders to crime victims being overturned on appeal. In Colorado, when a convicted defendant is required to pay restitution, prosecutors typically must provide the…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced on Monday it will review the constitutionality of two judges’ decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced on Monday it will review the constitutionality of two judges’ decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced on Monday it will review the constitutionality of two judges’ decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear…
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Colorado justices tentatively agree that judges’ appearance of bias can matter in criminal appeals
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Although members of the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed unconvinced that an El Paso County judge should have recused herself from a case because she was previously the victim of a similar crime, the court was less receptive to the government’s position that a judge’s appearance of bias can almost never be grounds for…
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Pulling back the curtain: Justice William Hood talks about appeals behind the scenes
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The Colorado Supreme Court is increasingly taking up appeals directly from the trial courts, said Justice William W. Hood III at a legal event in February, but lawyers still need to understand how to make a compelling argument for intervention. “You’d be surprised how often it’s just sort of hard to figure out what the…
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‘Political with a small “p”‘: Federal, state and local pathways to the bench
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Appearing before the U.S. Senate. Getting on the governor’s shortlist. Interviewing with the city council. On Feb. 23, members from all levels of the judiciary appeared at an event sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association’s Judicial Liaison Section to speak about the various ways they ascended to the bench and the wide experiences in selection from…