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Ex-DPS officer not eligible for unemployment benefits after texting N-word to boss, appeals court says
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A former Denver Public Schools safety officer who was fired for sending an administrator the N-word in a text message is not eligible for unemployment benefits under state law, Colorado’s second-highest court agreed on Thursday. Shelly Wright maintained she had not purposefully sent the slur, but rather used voice-to-text under “bright sunshine” and had not…
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Oral arguments, caseloads and bad lawyering: Appellate judges and justices provide peek behind judicial curtain
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Nearly all members of the Colorado Supreme Court and half of the judges on the Court of Appeals convened with attorneys on Friday to give a behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of the judiciary, and to voice concern about the escalating number of issues they are being asked to decide in appeals. The topics…
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Colorado Supreme Court accepts case involving judge who was crime victim
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case questioning whether an El Paso County judge who was the victim of a roadside shooting should have recused herself from presiding over a road rage trial with similar circumstances. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to grant an…
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Appeals court finds Pueblo judge wrongly withheld officer’s misconduct records
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A Pueblo County judge should have released to the defendant his arresting officer’s disciplinary history for dishonesty and poor evidence-handling, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. District Court Judge Thomas Flesher refused to disclose the officer’s records during the 2020 trial of David Juhl Cox, asserting they were irrelevant and that the officer was “not…