probable cause
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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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Judge finds Parker man cannot sue Aurora, officer for wrongful arrest
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A Parker man may not proceed to sue the city of Aurora and one of its officers for being wrongfully arrested for a theft he did not commit, a federal judge has decided. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico, while simultaneously finding Darren Rucker had not presented a viable claim against Aurora for the…
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Judge refuses to toss $500,000 jury verdict against Denver officer over wrongful arrest at DIA
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A federal judge upheld a jury’s $500,000 verdict and finding of liability against a Denver police officer whose faulty probable cause statement led to the wrongful arrest of a man at Denver International Airport. After a jury earlier this year determined Officer Karl Coleman acted maliciously when he erroneously wrote on legal paperwork that Juan…
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Appeals court endorses daily searches of Denver student under ‘safety plan’
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Colorado’s second-highest court has found Denver school security officials acted lawfully by continuing their daily searches of a student with a prior handgun offense, even when the “safety plan” enabling the searches had no expiration date. It has been nearly four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in-school searches do not require probable cause…
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Boulder asks 10th Circuit to overturn multimillion-dollar jury verdict
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After a federal judge determined that the evidence and the law supported a jury’s multimillion-dollar verdict against the City of Boulder for failing to train its police officers, the city is hoping the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit will overturn that decision. Last October, a seven-member jury decided after a weeklong trial…
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10th Circuit upholds seizure of Park County horses
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The federal appeals court based in Denver upheld the seizure of dozens of malnourished horses in Park County, finding that government officials had probable cause to suspect a violation of Colorado’s animal cruelty law. After a lower court judge dismissed his lawsuit last year, Mark Walker turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
