ryan stuart
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Appeals court forges ahead on child prostitution question after Supreme Court takes a pass
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Weighing in on a question the Colorado Supreme Court recently left for “another day,” the state’s Court of Appeals decided last week that prosecutors need only prove a defendant knowingly arranges for a child’s prostitution and not that he specifically intends for the child to be prostituted. In addressing the subtle, but meaningful, distinction, a…
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Appeals court finds no constitutional violation after judge told public to leave courtroom
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that an Arapahoe County judge did not violate the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a public trial when he ordered the one observer to a criminal proceeding out of his courtroom during jury selection. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals emphasized its findings in the case of Terance…
