Tag: Interrogation
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Divided Colorado Supreme Court finds Denver detective did not violate defendant’s Miranda rights
The Colorado Supreme Court determined on Monday that a Denver detective did not improperly resume questioning of a defendant in custody after he invoked his right to counsel. By 4-3, the justices reversed a trial judge’s order that found a violation of Dakotah J. Lulei’s Miranda rights. The Supreme Court’s majority based its decision on…
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No Miranda warning necessary for man repeatedly told he was under arrest: Colorado Supreme Court
Even though Longmont police warned a man four times he was under arrest, told him “we are going to take you to jail” and stood in his doorway, the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the man was not effectively in custody at the time. The 4-3 decision from the Supreme Court meant the…
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Split appeals court rules Aurora police needed to give Miranda warning to road rage suspect
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court has reversed a man’s assault convictions in Arapahoe County because police failed to provide a Miranda warning at the point when their interrogation effectively placed the defendant in custody. A panel of the Court of Appeals decided, by 2-1, that while Aurora…
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Fractured Supreme Court finds Adams County defendant did not invoke right to counsel in custody
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In an unusual decision on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that a criminal defendant did not clearly invoke his constitutional right to an attorney during a police interrogation, even though a majority of the justices actually believed the opposite was true. The appeal…
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10th Circuit denies immunity to Denver detectives who coerced teenager’s false murder confession
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four Denver law enforcement officers may be sued for the coerced confession of a cognitively-impaired 14-year-old boy, resulting in false information that led to his wrongful conviction for murder, the federal appeals court based in Colorado ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel of the U.S.…
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House kills bill to ban law enforcement from lying to minors
In the last act of the 2022 legislative session, the state House Wednesday killed a bill to prohibit law enforcement from lying while interrogating suspects younger than 18. The House sponsors of Senate Bill 23 chose to shut the bill down without opposition less than an hour before the legislature’s midnight deadline to conclude operations. The decision came…