zachary martin
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Appeals court finds police baton does not fall under law against disarming officers
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The state’s second-highest court on Thursday overturned a man’s conviction for disarming a police officer, determining that Colorado law does not classify batons in the list of objects covered under the disarming offense. At the same time, the three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals upheld Jeremiah A. Tomaske’s conviction for attempting to disarm a…