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Appeals court rules anti-police bias alleged in jury deliberations is not basis for overturning verdict
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that allegations of a juror’s anti-police statements during deliberations in a civil trial cannot trigger an inquiry into whether the juror’s bias requires a new trial. Generally, jurors cannot be made to testify about statements made during deliberations when a party challenges the validity of a jury’s verdict. There…
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SCOTUS takes up ‘true threats’ case out of Colorado, the latest in a series of state court appeals
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The nation’s highest court has shone a spotlight on Colorado’s typically low-profile Court of Appeals, agreeing to review a decision of the 22-member court for the second time in under a decade. The U.S. Supreme Court, in granting appeals, occasionally gives the green-light to federal cases that come through the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals…
