michael mchenry
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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit of UCCS chef who alleges illegal firing
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An El Paso County jury will decide whether the University of Colorado fired an employee because he was rude, abusive and unprofessional, or because he filed a whistleblower complaint against his supervisor, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. A trial judge previously found the evidence showed Russell Allen’s supervisors were concerned about his persistently…
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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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Appeals court finds El Paso defendant never gave up right to jury trial, overturns convictions
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Colorado’s second-highest court has concluded an El Paso County judge mistakenly found a defendant had relinquished his constitutional right to a jury trial, when the man had never, in fact, explicitly agreed to do so. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals reversed the felony assault and sexual assault convictions of Stacey Joe Yarbrough,…
