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Raymond Moore announces retirement, creating judicial vacancy for Biden
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U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore has announced his intention to retire from active service on Colorado’s federal trial court, creating another judicial vacancy for President Joe Biden to fill. Moore, a 2013 appointee of Barack Obama, will take a form of retirement known as senior status on June 20, 2023. As a senior…
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From ‘off-the-grid kid’ to appeals judge: Eric Kuhn sworn in to state’s second-highest court
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Shortly after his birth in Santa Fe, N.M., W. Eric Kuhn recalled his parents bought a large amount of land in northern New Mexico, where he and his brother grew up isolated from other families. “I remember at least stories of the teachers at the elementary school who were worried about these ‘off-the-grid kids’ living…
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Court of Appeals formally welcomes 3 new judges appointed pre-pandemic
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Within the state’s second-highest court, they are known as the “three amigos.” Alternately: the “three stooges,” the “three musketeers,” or “chummy, yummy and gummy.” But to everyone outside the Court of Appeals’ 22-member bench, they are known simply as “judge.” “They’re very tight. They’re very close,” said Chief Judge Gilbert M. Román during Thursday’s formal swearing-in ceremony…
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5,276 acres in Colorado to be leased for oil, gas extraction
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The Bureau of Land Management is opening up 5,276 acres of federal land for oil and gas extraction in Colorado. The nine parcels lie in Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Weld counties. Other than a 120-acre parcel 14 miles east of Eaton in Weld County, they are all in northwest Colorado in areas where drillers…
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Help wanted: Rural judges pitch county court openings to lawyers, non-lawyers alike
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With a trio of upcoming judicial vacancies in southwestern Colorado, the state’s Judicial Department hosted a discussion for potential applicants shining a light on what to expect should they be appointed to the bench in some of the least-populous counties in the state. “Part of being a judge is that you are always a judge.…
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In 2-1 decision, appeals court upholds man’s conviction for threatening judge
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A man was properly convicted for telling a judge that he would “kidnap your daughter,” the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday, determining the comments were a threat under the law and not constitutionally-protected speech. The 2-1 decision from a panel of the Court of Appeals found that Adrian Jeremiah Brown had communicated an intent…
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Federal judge in Colorado announces retirement, creating fourth trial court vacancy for Biden
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William J. Martínez, a judge on Colorado’s U.S. District Court, announced that he will step down as an active judge effective Feb. 10, 2023. Martínez, who is 68 this year, was an appointee of President Barack Obama, and has served since December 2010. He has opted to take a form of retirement known as senior status,…
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State Supreme Court reverses kidnapping conviction due to faulty instruction
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It is not accurate to define kidnapping as any movement, “however short in distance,” the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Monday, reversing a man’s conviction because a Gilpin County judge wrongly instructed the jury. Under the law, someone who commits kidnapping seizes and carries a person from one place to another without their consent. But…
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Boulder judge ordered man’s involuntary medication without letting him testify, appeals court finds
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A Boulder County judge deprived a man of a fair hearing by refusing to let him testify before she ordered him to be forcibly medicated, the Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. District Court Judge Nancy W. Salomone initially found that a college student identified as T.L. had a mental health disorder and granted the government’s request for…
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State Supreme Court decides political caucuses are off-limits for judges
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Although state judges have been allowed to participate in political caucuses since 2010 without running afoul of the rules of judicial conduct, the Colorado Supreme Court has now decided to prohibit them from doing so. In a change effective Jan. 21, involvement in a “caucus-type election” now violates the prohibition against judges making political speeches…
