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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
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Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced on Monday it will review the constitutionality of two judges’ decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear…
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Appeals court rejects new trial after Jeffco judge inadvertantly live streamed comments about case
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A Jefferson County judge’s comments about the defendant, accidentally broadcast over a live stream that the judge did not realize was running, do not provide grounds for a new trial, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week. Daniel Boman Olguin stood trial in 2021 for a felony trespassing charge. Due to pandemic precautions, the proceedings were…
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Appeals court upholds ejection of disruptive observer from livestream of criminal trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last month that ejecting a disruptive observer from the livestream of a criminal trial will not typically violate the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a public trial. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals considered for the first time whether a Weld County judge effectively “closed” his courtroom mid-trial by banning…
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State Supreme Court finds no problem with judge terminating parental rights as father struggled to log in
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Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday did not fault a Jefferson County judge for refusing to postpone a hearing in which she terminated a father’s parental rights, even as the man was unsuccessfully trying to connect to the proceedings virtually. The justices noted that Colorado law permits judges to end the legal relationship between a parent…
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State Supreme Court takes up cases on revenge porn, virtual court difficulties
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Colorado’s Supreme Court justices have announced they will review four decisions of the state’s Court of Appeals, ranging from a criminal conviction under the “revenge-porn” law to a man’s struggles accessing the virtual hearing where a judge terminated his parental rights. Two members of the court indicated they would have granted an additional appeal clarifying…
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Report sounds alarm for lawmakers, judges to fix gaps in state’s civil justice system
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Court forms are bewildering, people who speak limited English lose their cases by default, a lack of broadband thwarts the effectiveness of virtual court hearings, there is a shortage of legal aid, and the state judicial system’s chosen online platform is ill-suited to the needs of the disabled and non-English speakers. Those were the conclusions…
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Jeffco judge wrongfully terminated father’s rights as he struggled to connect to hearing, appeals court rules
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A Jefferson County judge declined to postpone proceedings and instead terminated a father’s parental rights as he struggled to connect to the virtual hearing, a decision the state’s second-highest court has now reversed. District Court Judge Ann Gail Meinster should have granted the request to postpone the February 2021 hearing, a three-judge panel of the…
