vehicular eluding
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 Denver criminal appeals
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will decide whether the state’s second-highest court correctly overturned a defendant’s vehicular eluding conviction due to the faulty wording of a jury instruction. The justices also will review whether the Court of Appeals properly rejected an appeal by prosecutors that was filed beyond the procedural deadline,…
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Appeals court finds no constitutional violation from hard-to-hear livestream during trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court last week ruled that problems with livestreaming technology during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic did not violate a defendant’s constitutional right to a public trial if observers were still free to watch in the physical courtroom. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the criminally accused the right to a public trial. In…
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Appeals court overturns assault conviction for lack of evidence defendant was ‘in custody’
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Pueblo County prosecutors failed to prove a defendant was “in custody” at the time she allegedly assaulted a sheriff’s deputy, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday in overturning the conviction. Alicia Antonia Martinez is serving a six-year sentence for allegedly striking a deputy with her vehicle as she evaded law enforcement. Prosecutors charged…
