Tag: judge diana may
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Appeals court agrees defendant’s speech constitutionally protected against El Paso County judge
Colorado’s second-highest court agreed last week that a defendant’s critical statements toward an El Paso County judge were constitutionally protected and could not form the basis of a retaliation charge. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel concluded that, in context, Ashley Hernandez’s brief confrontation with District Court Judge Diana May in a courthouse elevator did…
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Colorado Supreme Court dings El Paso County DA’s office for filing appeal in wrong court
Although the justices are required to hear appeals directly when a judge declares a law unconstitutional, that is not what happened with the case of Ashley Hernandez