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‘You guys will get me someone to talk to’ not a request for counsel, appeals court rules
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that an El Paso County defendant did not clearly invoke his constitutional right to an attorney when he wondered whether police could “get me someone to talk to right now” during his interrogation. Even though a Colorado Springs detective told Jacolby Hasan Williams he would “just proceed with the…
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Karl Schock, judge with ‘big plans,’ officially sworn in to state’s Court of Appeals
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When Karl L. Schock met the woman he would later marry, he introduced himself, in her recollection, by saying: “Hi, I’m Karl and I have big plans.” “I promise that’s an unfair paraphrase of my first words to my future wife,” Schock insisted as his colleagues on the state’s Court of Appeals laughed. On Thursday,…
