Tag: Judge Jerry Jones
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Appeals judge asks Colorado Supreme Court to once again clarify magistrate rules
A member of Colorado’s second-highest court urged the state Supreme Court last week to revise confusing language in the rules governing magistrates, less than two weeks after an attempted cleanup of the rules took effect. Magistrates are judicial employees who are not judges but who handle aspects of cases in the trial courts. Litigants may consent…
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Colorado Supreme Court committee advances tenant-friendly rule change
The Colorado Supreme Court’s Civil Rules Committee advanced a proposal on Friday that would make it easier for tenants facing eviction to respond to and learn about their landlord’s initial court filing. Several members of the committee were torn about the wisdom of the relatively narrow change now headed to the full court. State law…
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Colorado Supreme Court committee debates tenant-friendly eviction proposal
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court’s civil rules committee vigorously debated a proposed rule change last month that would make it easier for tenants facing eviction to respond to and learn about their landlord’s initial court filing. As drafted, the disputed provision would require that a case number be assigned to a landlord’s complaint before…
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Appeals court says prosecutors may use evidence of defendant abusing witness to boost credibility
The defense argued the evidence of prior domestic violence served only to give jurors a negative impression of Romando Marquis Jones
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Colorado Supreme Court reinstates $940,000 jury award to man run over during rescue attempt
A belligerent taxicab passenger stole the vehicle and used it to run over the good Samaritan who came to the driver’s aid
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Douglas County judge wrongly let man represent self at trial, appeals court finds
Judge Patricia Herron did not ensure the defendant intelligently gave up his right to counsel, even as he mentioned he had applied unsuccessfully for a lawyer