pitkin county
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Pitkin County judge wrongly held mother in contempt, appeals court finds
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A Pitkin County judge issued a faulty contempt order that revoked a mother’s parenting time for three summers without addressing the required factors, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled earlier this month. After Vanessa Kirianoff-Brown did not transfer custody of her child to her ex-husband over two holiday weekends, he moved to hold her in contempt of…
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Colorado’s justices weigh immunity for municipalities acting as housing developers
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared skeptical this week of the idea that local governments lose their immunity under state law when they act as affordable housing developers. The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act broadly shields public entities from lawsuits over injuries they cause. Although there are exceptions to the immunity, the purpose of the…
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Colorado Supreme Court rules poor defendants have no right to keep assigned lawyer
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There is no constitutional right for indigent criminal defendants to go to trial with their preferred public defender, even though defendants who are wealthy enough to hire an attorney do enjoy that ability, a majority of the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a pair of 6-1 decisions, the Supreme Court determined that poor…
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Unlawful arrest, questionable evidence leads to reversal of Pitkin County man’s convictions
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A Pitkin County judge improperly allowed evidence stemming from an unlawful arrest to be used at trial, and did not correctly instruct the jury about how to use a different set of evidence, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. The three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals that reviewed Jeremiah Daniel Casper’s case…
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10,000 deaths: Colorado’s grievous losses have devolved into an unwinnable argument
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The week after Thanksgiving, Dr. Joseph Forrester stood by the bedside of a man who’d been in the intensive care unit at the Medical Center of Aurora for two months. The patient was in his 70s, and COVID-19 had so ravaged his body that a ventilator breathed for him. Standing next to Forrester was the…
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Colorado county considers increased fees to offset energy use at big homes
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ASPEN – Pitkin County commissioners are considering upping the ante to encourage the builders of larger homes in the Aspen area to use renewable energy. The county’s Renewable Energy Mitigation Program collects fees based on the size of new homes larger than 5,750 square feet to offset the environmental impacts of the increased energy use.…
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Pitkin County sheriff endorses Democrat Michael Dougherty in attorney general race
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Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo on Tuesday endorsed fellow Democrat Michael Dougherty for Colorado attorney general in the November election, saying the veteran prosecutor’s “depth of experience and knowledge of law enforcement” make him uniquely qualified for the office. Dougherty, the assistant district attorney for Jefferson and Gilpin counties and a former top prosecutor in the…
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Vice President Mike Pence visiting Aspen area for holiday vacation
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, are spending the week in the Aspen area on vacation, The Aspen Times reported, bringing heavy security and some traffic delays to some of Colorado’s ritziest mountain communities. A motorcade bearing the Pences made the journey from Eagle County and its airport near Vail to a residence…
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ICYMI: Hemp definition murky, Bennet visits DPS school, Bundy photos unlocked and more
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● While the state and federal governments have different definitions regarding the legality of marijuana, it’s an even murkier picture when it come to marijuana’s far less potent cousin, industrial hemp. And, as the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported, the differences surfaced over a water issue in southeastern Colorado. The Bureau of Reclamation denied a…
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Schwartz, Tipton present a sharp contrast in Western Slope policies, ideals
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In certain working-class towns on Colorado’s Western Slope, it’s a slur to say someone is an Aspen liberal, and it’s an accusation that’s been thrown at Democrat Gail Schwartz repeatedly since she first decided to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, in early April. “While Gail Schwartz has been at a cocktail party somewhere…
