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Jeffco murder conviction overturned after appeals court finds police unconstitutionally accessed cell phone
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A man serving a life sentence for murder will receive a new trial after Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that law enforcement unconstitutionally used a “shortcut” to unlock his phone in time for his original trial. In reaching its conclusion, a three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals rejected the idea that a cell…
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Vice President Mike Pence visiting Aspen area for holiday vacation
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, are spending the week in the Aspen area on vacation, The Aspen Times reported, bringing heavy security and some traffic delays to some of Colorado’s ritziest mountain communities. A motorcade bearing the Pences made the journey from Eagle County and its airport near Vail to a residence…
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How Colorado’s congressional delegation voted this week
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H.Con.Res. 90: Condemning ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine in Burma This was a vote to agree to H.Con.Res. 90 in the House. This resolution was a House of Representatives condemnation of what it called…
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YESTERYEAR: Owens takes steps to fix transportation budget shortfall, Amendment 41 derails three legislators
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … The Colorado Children’s Chorale performance at the White House was proclaimed a riveting success. Thirty-two Colorado children performed at the private event, an experience the now-adults have surely not forgotten. “The Holiday Open House” event was for White House staff, members of Congress, the Secret…
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Coffman calls Trump remarks ‘reckless,’ but most state GOP officials stay mum
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The Republican incumbent in Colorado’s most competitive congressional race scolded Donald Trump for remarks the GOP presidential nominee made Tuesday about the Second Amendment and its supporters, although nearly every other prominent Republican in the state kept quiet as the controversy raged on. As politicians, pundits and law enforcement officials nationwide argued over whether Trump…
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Micek: No walking back Trump’s comments
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Donald Trump knew what he was doing Tuesday afternoon. Make no mistake. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” a smiling Trump said of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the…
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Trump, on defense, blames media for Second Amendment flap
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On the defensive once again, Donald Trump is blaming faulty interpretations and media bias for an uproar over his comments about the Second Amendment. He’s insisting he never advocated violence against Hillary Clinton, even as undeterred Democrats pile on. The latest controversy to strike Trump’s campaign arose, as they often do, out of an offhand…
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Trump slammed for comments about Clinton, Second Amendment
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Donald Trump ignited a fresh political firestorm Tuesday by declaring gun rights supporters might still find a way to stop Hillary Clinton, even if she should defeat him and then name anti-gun Supreme Court justices. Democrats pounced, accusing him of openly encouraging violence against his opponent. The Republican presidential nominee has been working this week to move…
