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Colorado Supreme Court to hear cases on ‘3 strikes’ law, Littleton family’s meth exposure
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced this month it will hear cases that could drastically broaden the relief available to people serving lengthy sentences under the state’s “three strikes” law and that would potentially reduce a multimillion-dollar award to two tenants who were poisoned by a downstairs meth operation. At least three of the court’s seven…
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In 2-1 decision, 10th Circuit upholds terrorism convictions and foreign surveillance protocols
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It was not a constitutional violation for two men charged with terrorism-related offenses to wait six-and-a-half years before receiving a trial, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Wednesday, while also upholding the government’s surveillance framework for suspected national security threats. In a pair of decisions spanning 280 pages, a panel of the U.S.…
