w. eric kuhn
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Arapahoe County judge was wrong to condition parents’ visits with child on drug tests: Appeals court
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An Arapahoe County judge had no apparent legal basis to require two parents to submit to sobriety tests as a condition for visiting their child, Colorado’s second-highest court determined last week. Former District Court Judge Natalie T. Chase declined to permit a mother and father to resume in-person visits with a child identified as A.P.…
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From ‘off-the-grid kid’ to appeals judge: Eric Kuhn sworn in to state’s second-highest court
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Shortly after his birth in Santa Fe, N.M., W. Eric Kuhn recalled his parents bought a large amount of land in northern New Mexico, where he and his brother grew up isolated from other families. “I remember at least stories of the teachers at the elementary school who were worried about these ‘off-the-grid kids’ living…
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Appeals court finds no error in small-town trial despite juror ‘irregularities,’ improper prosecutor conduct
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Despite multiple problems with the jury pool and the prosecutor’s improper statements at the end of trial, the state’s Court of Appeals last month upheld a Prowers County woman’s convictions after concluding any errors did not undermine the fairness of her trial. A jury convicted Carie Ann Hawkins in 2019 for conspiring to commit theft…
