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Divided appeals court finds man’s 5-year sentence reasonable for now-misdemeanor crime
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week upheld the 62-month prison sentence of a man who escaped to Arizona while on parole in 2018, even though the offense would now result in a maximum of 120 days in jail. By a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals found Jonathan Scott Story was not…
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State Supreme Court agrees to hear El Paso County child welfare case
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The Colorado Supreme Court will review whether a trial court judge in El Paso County had the ability to terminate a mother and father’s parental rights, even though they and their child had moved out of state. The justices agreed in late April to hear the case of E.W., who was two years old in…
