Tag: Judge Michael Mchenry
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Appeals court clarifies defendants’ ability to claim they unknowingly ingested drugs
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that not every criminal defendant’s claim that they mistakenly ingested a different drug than the drug they thought they were taking will enable them to argue they were “involuntarily intoxicated.” An El Paso County jury convicted Karl Jeran Friday Williams in 2022 after he walked through a Colorado Springs neighborhood…
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Colorado appeals court divided on timeline for awarding restitution to crime victims
The Court of Appeals applied a recent ruling from the Supreme Court, which found the traditional approach of awarding restitution to crime victims didn’t comply with the law