robert blackburn
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Judge tells defendant, feds that he cannot legally accept American Indian man’s guilty plea
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Breaking with his colleagues in other states, a federal judge has told the government and an American Indian defendant in Colorado that he cannot accept the parties’ plea deal because Congress has not authorized him to consider the offense. The March 2 decision of U.S. District Court Senior Judge Robert E. Blackburn to reject the…
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10th Circuit orders resentencing for brutal assault after judge’s error
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Although the federal appeals court based in Denver rejected nearly all arguments from a man convicted of brutally beating his wife into unconsciousness, it conceded the trial judge had improperly sentenced him at a higher level than guidelines allow. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit vacated the 30-year…
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Federal judge refuses to send Colorado Springs man’s lawsuit alleging ICE brutality to Louisiana
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A federal judge in Colorado rebuffed the government’s request to transfer a Colorado Springs man’s lawsuit to Louisiana, in which he alleges immigration officers physically assaulted and infected him with COVID-19 during his detention. Acheleke Fuanya, an asylum seeker from Cameroon, left the Winn Correctional Center in March 2021 and sued the U.S. government for…
