Warrantless Arrest
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Federal judge hears ICE agents’ confusion about law, injunction on warrantless arrests
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A federal judge heard testimony on Tuesday from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents in Colorado, who had trouble describing the requirements of his recent injunction and the training they received on making warrantless arrests pursuant to the law. On Nov. 25, U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson found that ICE’s warrantless arrests…
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Colorado justices find Fort Collins police lacked probable cause to arrest suspect in park
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The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday that Fort Collins police lacked probable cause to arrest a man for a child sex offense based on his presence in a public park around the time they intended to meet with their unknown suspect. In May 2021, police interviewed a 14-year-old girl who alleged she met a…
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Federal judge: ‘Clear evidence’ shows ICE violates law on warrantless arrests
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A federal judge repeatedly observed on Friday that the evidence from a two-day hearing strongly suggested immigration agents have been arresting people without warrants in Colorado in violation of federal law. “There’s a policy. These guys just don’t follow it. They might not even know what it is,” U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke…
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Federal judge ‘dumbfounded’ at government’s rejection of enforceable order holding ICE to its own policy
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A federal judge on Friday grilled the government over its position that an internal policy defining the ability of immigration agents to make warrantless arrests should not be enforceable through a court order. “As a citizen of Colorado and of the United States, I am dumbfounded that the government won’t agree to a court order…
