juvenile
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Claims of tribal heritage not enough to trigger ‘Indian child’ protections, state justices say
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Family members’ assertions that a child has American Indian heritage are insufficient to trigger the longstanding federal protections for tribal children in welfare proceedings, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The justices resolved an issue that has split the state’s Court of Appeals and focused attention on a key section of the Indian Child…
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Denver judge violated law in rescinding jury trial after mother was late
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A Denver juvenile court judge violated a mother’s right to a jury trial in her child welfare case by dismissing jurors after she was 10 minutes late without finding out why, the Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. Although child welfare proceedings, formally known as dependency and neglect cases, are not criminal and have no…
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Park County judge had no authority to compel visitation between siblings, state Supreme Court says
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The Colorado Supreme Court found a Park County judge lacked the legal authority to order two siblings to visit with their brother as part of the latter’s child welfare proceedings. Although Colorado law charges local departments of human services with promoting “frequent contact” between siblings in foster care and gives foster children the right to…
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2022 SESSION: CONFRONTING CRISES | Actions of the 2022 General Assembly
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2022 offered legislators the first real opportunity to set an ambitious agenda after two years of limping through the global pandemic, but Colorado’s emergence out of the COVID-19 crisis also unleashed a torrent of challenges. There were many familiar problems, such as housing, behavioral health and wildfires, as well as new ones, notably soaring inflation…
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Appeals court overturns jail sentence for Arapahoe County teen
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An 18-year-old who received a mandatory five-day jail sentence for being a juvenile in possession of a handgun must be resentenced under the broader range of options available to offenders who are no longer children, the state’s Court of Appeals has decided. In the case involving a teenager identified as E.V., the defense took the…
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Denver officers had insufficient grounds to search hoodie-wearing juvenile, appeals court decides
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Colorado’s second-highest court found that two Denver officers needed more justification to search a juvenile than the fact he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt in the summer, and consequently, the drugs discovered on the boy should not have been allowed as evidence. Based on that unlawful search, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals…
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McCann creates juvenile prosecution unit
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Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has announced the creation of a separate juvenile prosecutions unit within the district attorney’s office. Effective Wednesday, March 1, the Juvenile and Drug Courts Unit will be reorganized to establish a separate juvenile unit, led by its own chief deputy and specially selected deputies. The drug court unit will continue…
