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State Supreme Court says judges may not force mediation in criminal cases
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Resolving a question it had never addressed before, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that trial judges may not order the parties in a criminal case to participate in mediation to potentially reach a plea agreement. Although prosecutors and defendants can voluntarily decide to sit down with a neutral third party and discuss how…
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Appeals court clarifies Fifth Amendment rights of sex offense probationers
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that if a defendant on sex-offender probation refuses to accept responsibility for his crime as a condition of treatment, the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination may prohibit a judge from revoking his probation as a punishment. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals specified that its decision applied…
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Appeals court finds Pueblo judge had no authority to make defendant pay for dismissed case
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The state’s Court of Appeals has reversed the $67 charge a Pueblo County judge imposed on a criminal defendant, even though prosecutors had dismissed the case against him. A three-judge panel for the appellate court agreed state law did not allow District Court Judge Thomas Flesher to order such payment from Benjamin Franklin Sanchez, even if…
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Pueblo man arrested for attempted tampering in primary election
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Police arrested a Pueblo man on Thursday for allegedly trying to tamper with a voting machine during Colorado’s primary election in June. Richard Patton, 31, was booked into the Pueblo County Judicial Center on charges of tampering with a voting machine and cybercrimes, according to the Pueblo Police Department. Patton was arrested without incident at…
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Colorado Supreme Court to review constitutionality of mental health law, ‘straw purchases’ of guns
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The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear two appeals challenging the constitutionality of state law as being either vague or in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The cases have come to the state’s highest court by way of the Court of Appeals, where a panel of three appellate judges declined to label as…
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Interim public health medical director to split time between El Paso, Pueblo counties
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Amid an exodus of county-level public health leadership around Colorado, El Paso County Public Health’s new interim medical director is splitting his time between local needs and the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment. Dr. Chris Urbina, a former director for the Denver public health department and the state health department, took over as…
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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
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The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
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COLORADO ROUNDUP | Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M
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GRAND JUNCTION Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M A federal oil and gas lease sale in Colorado netted nearly $1 million in revenue. The Bureau of Land Management says 20 parcels totaling about 12.3 square miles were sold Dec. 13 for $981,143, including rentals and fees, in its quarterly Colorado lease sale.…
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Pueblo Democrat Leroy Garcia launches reelection bid in Senate District 3
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Assistant Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia, the Pueblo Democrat who took back one of the Senate seats lost to Republicans in Colorado’s 2013 recall elections, formally launched his campaign this week for a second term representing Senate District 3. Garcia, a paramedic, community college instructor and Marine Corps veteran, said in a statement he wants…
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If you don’t like Colorado weather, wait an hour; if you don’t like the climate, sue
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Just the other day Hot Sheet took note of an impending lawsuit by Pueblo County – in conjunction with other government entities nationwide – against the pharmaceutical industry that manufacturers much of the opioids being abused across Middle America. The legal premise: The way the industry makes and markets the prescription drugs, though federally regulated, makes…