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10th Circuit rules Greeley officer unconstitutionally detained man standing outside home
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The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded last week that a Greeley police officer lacked reasonable suspicion to detain a man who was standing outside the door of a residence and not engaging in any indicators of criminal activity. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit noted that the U.S.…
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Federal judge bars evidence from pat-down, finds Sterling officer had no grounds to search motorist
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A federal judge barred evidence from a pat-down search from being used against a defendant on Monday, concluding a Sterling police officer violated the man’s rights by searching him without a legal basis. Federal prosecutors indicted Jorge Sigala-Baray for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Police discovered the gun on Sigala-Baray after pulling him over for…
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10th Circuit agrees Aurora officer unconstitutionally detained man
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed last week that an Aurora officer unreasonably detained a Black man who looked nothing like what a 911 caller reported, resulting in a constitutional violation that required evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out. Officer William Idler approached Lyndell Daniels in the parking lot of…
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Federal judge bars government from using seized narcotics in drug trafficking case
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A federal judge last month barred the government from using more than two dozen pounds of narcotics seized from a vehicle as evidence against the defendants because a Colorado state trooper violated the prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. When Trooper Joshua St. Onge pulled over Ezequiel Pita-Chavolla and Manuel Pacheco for a traffic infraction,…
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Federal judge bars government from using seized narcotics in drug trafficking case
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A federal judge last month barred the government from using more than two dozen pounds of narcotics seized from a vehicle as evidence against the defendants because a Colorado state trooper violated the prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. When Trooper Joshua St. Onge pulled over Ezequiel Pita-Chavolla and Manuel Pacheco for a traffic infraction,…
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Federal judge bars government from using seized narcotics in drug trafficking case
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A federal judge last month barred the government from using more than two dozen pounds of narcotics seized from a vehicle as evidence against the defendants because a Colorado state trooper violated the prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. When Trooper Joshua St. Onge pulled over Ezequiel Pita-Chavolla and Manuel Pacheco for a traffic infraction,…
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Colorado lawmakers face $170 million budget shortfall; Supreme Court upholds search without warrant for student under ‘safety plan’; Colorado’s jobless rate increases | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 26, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: The news that revenues would make for a tight budget year wasn’t unexpected. And even with the hole, the JBC went with the more optimistic forecast from the governor’s economists. Even so, that put the anticipated shortfall – unless budget writers decided to…
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Colorado lawmakers face $170 million budget shortfall; Supreme Court upholds search without warrant for student under ‘safety plan’; Colorado’s jobless rate increases | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is March 26, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: The news that revenues would make for a tight budget year wasn’t unexpected. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); And even with the hole, the JBC went with the more optimistic forecast from the governor’s economists. Even so, that put the anticipated shortfall — unless budget…
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Appeals court overturns jail sentence for Arapahoe County teen
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An 18-year-old who received a mandatory five-day jail sentence for being a juvenile in possession of a handgun must be resentenced under the broader range of options available to offenders who are no longer children, the state’s Court of Appeals has decided. In the case involving a teenager identified as E.V., the defense took the…
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State Supreme Court agrees Denver officers lacked reasonable suspicion to detain man
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Two Denver police officers did not have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity when they boxed in a driver with their patrol car, the Colorado Supreme Court decided, deeming the officers’ actions an unconstitutional seizure under the Fourth Amendment. The decision on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling that suppressed evidence from Alexander Brown’s February 2020…
