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Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace

Updated 2 days ago

Colorado’s judicial system is barely closer to fixing what some have called a broken process of disciplining judges a year after voters approved a new...

Federal judge blocks Colorado law requiring social media platforms to provide warnings to children

Updated 2 days ago

A federal judge blocked Colorado on Thursday from implementing a requirement that social media companies notify users younger than 18 of the effects to their...

Appeals court rules against Bruce in ‘trip and fall’ case

Updated 3 days ago

Douglas Bruce — author of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and a former inmate convicted of tax evasion — lost an appeal Thursday in the...

Prosecutors charge shuttle bus driver with careless driving for fatal July crash

Updated 4 days ago

Prosecutors with the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office filed charges against a man Wednesday for a July bus crash that killed one and injured 10....

Boulder firebomb attack suspect pleads not guilty in state court

Updated 4 days ago

10th Circuit revives retaliation claim against Jeffco sanitation district

Updated 5 days ago

Englewood police officer fired, facing multiple assault charges after tasing, choking man during October traffic stop

Updated 5 days ago

Appeals court orders new trial after Denver judge wrongly let defendant represent self

Updated 6 days ago

Littleton man found guilty of assault on officer in King Soopers Pride balloon popping incident

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Appeals court reverses murder conviction after Denver judge violated public trial right

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Judge in Barry Morphew case rules to limit pre-trial publicity

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Los Angeles man indicted for attempting to pimp Colorado women

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Appeals judge asks Colorado Supreme Court to clarify process for returning seized property to defendants

Updated 6 days ago

Lakewood elementary school sale injunction pushed until next week

Updated 1 week ago

Denver suspect from viral ‘No Kings’ video raising legal funds

Updated 2 weeks ago

The man arrested in connection to the viral Denver “No Kings” protest video has raised more than $4,000 in legal funds. The video — filmed by Drew Kartos —...

Nebraska says Colorado is stealing its water

Updated 2 weeks ago

The fight over Nebraska’s attempt to seize privately-owned land in northeastern Colorado persisted this week, with Nebraska accusing Colorado of stealing its water in a...

10th Circuit finds judge improperly imposed 25-year mandatory minimum for kidnapping

Updated 2 weeks ago

The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded on Tuesday that a judge incorrectly believed he had to sentence a defendant convicted of kidnapping to the 25-year...

Federal judge awards $10,000 to Supermax prisoner for guard’s use of force

Updated 2 weeks ago

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated $10,000 by the U.S. government for a...

Colorado justices ponder whether rental car companies are also ‘insurers’

Updated 2 weeks ago

Judge tosses request for JonBenet murder investigative materials

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Michael Clark murder defense seeks to link case to JonBenét investigation ‘mistakes’

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Report: Colorado’s federal trial court sees time to trial tick up, magistrate judge consent remain low

Updated 2 weeks ago

Appeals court declines to overturn defendant’s ‘3 strikes’ sentence

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Officers cleared in Broomfield hostage standoff shooting

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Jury finds Colorado man not guilty of felony animal cruelty in Adams County cockfighting case

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10th Circuit rejects assortment of legal theories challenging workplace vaccine mandates

Updated 2 weeks ago

Colorado justices consider whether man can be convicted for convincing mom to lie for him

Updated 3 weeks ago

‘Mental gymnastics’: Lawyers, judge dissect Colorado Supreme Court’s racial bias rule for jury selection

Updated 3 weeks ago

Judge orders noncitizen released from immigration detention, finds government misapplied law

Updated 3 weeks ago

A federal judge concluded the government was likely wrong to detain a noncitizen without the chance for a release hearing, and ordered him to be...

Appeals court finds Denver jury convicted man for possessing more fentanyl than evidence showed

Updated 3 weeks ago

Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday concluded a Denver jury convicted a defendant of a felony for possessing more than four grams of an illegal substance...

Colorado justices decide pre-2025 law did not criminalize AI-generated child porn

Updated 3 weeks ago

Colorado law prior to 2025 did not criminalize, as a means of sexually exploiting a child, the use of artificial intelligence to generate nude images...

‘Literally dangerous’: Colorado’s chief justice speaks about dangers to judiciary from threats, rhetoric

Updated 3 weeks ago

Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez told an audience of lawyers and judges on Wednesday that “any action” that inappropriately fosters distrust in the judiciary is...