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Federal judge rejects challenge to Colorado ‘buffer zone’ law for abortion clinics
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A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a Denver woman’s challenge to Colorado’s 32-year-old law restricting proselytizing at abortion clinics, with the ultimate goal of the litigation being to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule its precedent on the subject. In 1993, Colorado legislators enacted a law generally prohibiting people from approaching others, within eight feet,…
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Judicial discipline commission compares SCOTUS ethical lapses to state judges’ disclosure violations
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In an unusually detailed and strongly worded report, Colorado’s judicial discipline body made clear on Friday that dozens of judges broke the law by failing to file financial disclosure statements on time, but that not every instance merited discipline in light of related behavior from the nation’s highest court. The Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline…
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Federal judge upholds constitutionality of law against possessing guns without serial numbers
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Although a major U.S. Supreme Court decision last year made it easier to strike down gun safety regulations as unconstitutional, a federal judge agreed on Monday that a law banning the possession of guns that lack serial numbers does not run afoul of the Second Amendment. Within months of his indictment for possessing a firearm…
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Colorado Supreme Court ponders role of juries in evaluating prior convictions
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More than two years ago, when the Colorado Supreme Court found that juries, not judges, must decide if people accused of felony drunk driving are repeat offenders, it prompted defendants found guilty of other offenses to wonder whether their own prior convictions were something prosecutors must prove to juries beyond a reasonable doubt. In two…
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SCOTUS hears challenge to Colorado stalking law, with questions about modern ‘sensitivity’
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For nearly two years, Billy Raymond Counterman sent a musician thousands of unsolicited Facebook messages, carrying on a one-way conversation as if he had a relationship with her. Then things escalated. “Was that you in the white Jeep?” “I’m currently unsupervised. I know, it freaks me out too.” “Five years on Facebook. Only a couple…
