public defenders
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In house or privatize: Comparing indigent legal defense in Aurora, Denver and Colorado Springs
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As Aurora’s policymakers debate the future of its Public Defender’s Office, an analysis of Colorado’s two other biggest cities shows major differences in structure and costs, largely driven by the types of cases their indigent legal teams handle. Both Denver and Aurora have in-house public defender’s offices, while Colorado Springs contracts out for indigent client…
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Defense attorneys clash with private federal prison over recorded meetings
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Defense attorneys who represent inmates at a privately run federal prison in Kansaswere livid after learning that their meetings with clients had been recorded on video, despite repeated assurances from the penitentiary that the conversations were private. The recordings that came to light this month had no audio, but the complaints raise the question of whether…
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YESTERYEAR: Andrews rips Dems, ‘shadow senator’ for playing coyote to roadrunner Owens
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, excoriated Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, for “doom[ing] compromise on the year’s toughest issue” in the just-concluded special session on growth with his “belligerent, partisan and profane” words. In a stinging guest commentary, Andrews criticized the Democrats at the…
