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Nicolais: Boulder sexual assault case provides no answers in a broken system
I don’t have the answer. I want that to be clear right from the beginning. As a member of the University of Colorado family, an attorney and stepfather to a college-aged woman, the stories regarding Austin Wilkerson and the sexual assault he committed leave me with many more questions than answers. I didn’t sit through…
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Nicolais: The back-and-forth swing of judicial discretion
The pendulum of judicial discretion perpetually swings from apex to apex without ever stopping in the middle. Subject to the political whims of its two more political brethren, the judicial branch remains ever subject to changing forces acting upon it. With passage of SB 16-051, the Colorado Legislature has increased the momentum in favor of…