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Colorado Supreme Court lays out frustration with current method of ID’ing racial bias in jury selection
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Colorado’s justices escalated their frustration on Monday with the existing framework for evaluating race-motivated dismissals of jurors in criminal trials, months after the state Supreme Court also invited lawmakers to do their part to fix the problem. Under longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, intentional race-based discrimination in jury selection is unconstitutional. Normally, parties may exercise…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear cases on Weld County redistricting, Xcel electrocution
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced recently that it will hear appeals in multiple cases, including whether Weld County must follow state law when drawing new legislative districts and when utilities may be held liable for injuries caused by their power lines. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to take up a…
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Colorado justices permit limited disclosure of medical records during contested will proceedings
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The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday that a Weld County judge properly allowed for disclosure of a deceased man’s medical records in the dispute between his children over the validity of his will. Writing in the June 10 opinion, Justice Melissa Hart acknowledged that physician-patient confidentiality, much like attorney-client confidentiality, applies even after a…
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Appeals court says car crash victim’s pregnancies irrelevant to personal injury trial
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Colorado’s second-highest court determined last week that a Weld County judge should not have instructed jurors to consider a car crash victim’s subsequent pregnancies and the disruption they had to her treatment when deciding how much money she should receive for her injuries. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the evidence did…
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Colorado justices vent about difficulty of evaluating racial bias in jury selection
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court last week expressed frustration with the difficulties of pinpointing unconstitutional racial bias in jury selection, especially when relatively few details are available after the fact about what happened at trial. “We’re trying to guess what’s in someone’s mind, someone’s heart, even when they may not be aware of it,…
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Colorado Supreme Court clarifies who owns oil, gas rights beneath streets
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, citing a need to avoid mass litigation across the state, ruled for the first time that property owners generally retain the mineral rights under roadways adjacent to their land, up to the center line. The decision resolved the question of who is entitled to oil and gas royalties for…
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Weld County drug conspiracy conviction overturned due to lack of conspiracy
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Weld County prosecutors did not prove a man was guilty of a conspiracy to distribute because the onetime, aborted transaction of an ounce of methamphetamine could not support the concept of “conspiracy,” Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. Jessie Rodriguez Sr. is serving a four-year prison sentence following his conviction in 2022. An undercover law…
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Federal judge declines to intervene after state ‘intercepted’ Colorado man’s $3.5 million jury award
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A federal judge on Thursday concluded he did not have the authority to intervene as Colorado performed an “administrative intercept” of the $3.5 million a jury awarded a plaintiff more than a year ago for violations of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews acknowledged there might…
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Federal judge declines to intervene after state ‘intercepted’ Colorado man’s $3.5 million jury award
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A federal judge on Thursday concluded he did not have the authority to intervene as Colorado performed an “administrative intercept” of the $3.5 million a jury awarded a plaintiff more than a year ago for violations of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews acknowledged there might…
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Federal judge declines to intervene after state ‘intercepted’ Colorado man’s $3.5 million jury award
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A federal judge on Thursday concluded he did not have the authority to intervene as Colorado performed an “administrative intercept” of the $3.5 million a jury awarded a plaintiff more than a year ago for violations of his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. U.S. District Court Judge S. Kato Crews acknowledged there might…
