Tag: Judge David Yun
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Appeals judges give Colorado lawyers inside view of courts | APPELLATE UPDATE
‘We’re not there to make you look foolish. We’re really just trying to have a dialogue,’ said Justice William Hood
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Appeals court emphasizes claims against officers must be ‘frivolous’ for unsuccessful plaintiffs to pay
Lawmakers created a mechanism in 2020 to sue police officers for violating people’s rights under the state constitution
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Appeals court rules harsher sentence after appeal does not mean judge was ‘vindictive’
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that a Jefferson County judge subjected a man to a harsher sentence following a successful appeal because the parole eligibility date was pushed back by multiple years, but that fact alone did not mean the judge acted “vindictively.” In 2015, the state Supreme Court noted that when a criminal…
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Appeals court declines to open door to challenges of already-final convictions
The state Supreme Court did not enable convicted defendants to retroactively challenge evidence admitted at their trials when it scrapped a longstanding rule, the Court of Appeals concluded
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Denver judge who once prosecuted defendant was not biased, appeals court rules
A man serving 414 years in prison has not shown his lawyer was ineffective for failing to ask the trial judge — who previously prosecuted the defendant — to recuse herself, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. Relatedly, a three-member panel for the Court of Appeals agreed the judge was not actually biased against Scott Shorts, despite her…