Tag: Domestic Violence
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Aurora council to vote on several major issues Monday, including homeless court, domestic violence cases
Several ongoing conversations will be up for vote at Aurora’s City Council meetings Monday night, including proposals to harshen camping penalties in the city, create a homeless court, remove domestic violence cases from Aurora’s municipal court and get rid of the “sunset provision” on mandatory minimum jail sentences for car theft. At the study session…
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Aurora committee OKs ordinance sending domestic violence cases to county courts
The public safety committee of the Aurora City Council voted on Thursday morning to move forward with a proposal to remove domestic violence cases from municipal court and instead pass them to state, county or federal court. The proposed ordinance, presented on Thursday by councilmembers Dustin Zvonek and Danielle Jurinsky to the Public Safety, Courts…
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2 Aurora councilmembers team up in push to shift domestic violence cases to county courts
Two Aurora councilmembers are teaming up in the push to end the city’s ability to handle domestic violence cases in municipal court, a responsibility that sets the latter apart from other local governments. Councilmember Dustin Zvonek and Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky in the past week have both addressed the possibility of handing domestic violence cases to…
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Adams and Broomfield counties start planning process for Family Justice Center
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Adams County and Broomfield County have begun the planning stages on a central justice center that would provide victims’ families of sexual assault and domestic violence with resources. A joint effort between the two counties — along with the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office and the Family Justice Center Alliance — the Family Justice Center…
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In house or privatize: Comparing indigent legal defense in Aurora, Denver and Colorado Springs
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As Aurora’s policymakers debate the future of its Public Defender’s Office, an analysis of Colorado’s two other biggest cities shows major differences in structure and costs, largely driven by the types of cases their indigent legal teams handle. Both Denver and Aurora have in-house public defender’s offices, while Colorado Springs contracts out for indigent client…
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Boulder officers cleared in man’s shooting death in May
The Boulder County district attorney decided two officers who shot a man to death in May were legally justified in using deadly force. After a 20th Judicial District Attorney’s Critical Incident Team investigation, Officers Collin Keith and Nathaniel Taylor were cleared in the shooting death of domestic violence suspect Christopher Swanger, 36. He had two active…
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Boulder police officers fatally shoot domestic violence suspect
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Boulder Police Department officers shot and killed a domestic violence suspect Thursday night after the suspect allegedly pointed a gun at officers. The male suspect shot was identified as Christopher Swanger, 36, who had two active felony warrants in Adams County and Boulder for domestic violence. He did not live in Boulder, according to Boulder…
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Federal judge finds no evidence Arapahoe County deputy suffered gender discrimination
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An Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputy, who was suspended without pay for 19 months while she resolved the criminal and internal affairs charges against her, failed to show she was treated worse than male employees under similar circumstances, a federal judge ruled last month. Lindsey Traxler had worked in the sheriff’s office for eight years when,…
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Weiser: Supreme Court should uphold federal law prohibiting gun possession by domestic abusers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s attorney general, Phil Weiser, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case about the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting gun possession by people with domestic violence restraining orders against them. Weiser joined a group of 25 state attorneys general asking the…
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Colorado Supreme Court ponders whether domestic violence treatment is ‘punishment’
Defendants whose crimes involve domestic violence are generally required to complete a treatment program and face other consequences, including the relinquishment of firearms. This week, the Colorado Supreme Court considered whether juries, instead of judges, should decide whether an offense amounts to domestic violence. To get to the answer, the justices must weigh a related…