Tag: Judge Terry Fox
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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 Supreme Court questions 2020 change to child neglect laws
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court pondered on Tuesday what the legislature meant to happen when it changed the state’s child neglect laws in 2020 to require more than a positive drug test at birth to deem a child neglected. The debate centered on the wording lawmakers chose to…
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Colorado Supreme Court, 5-2, says no new trial following ‘overt, in-court racism’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court concluded on Monday that a Black defendant did not deserve a new trial after one juror disclosed he moved to the overwhelmingly White jurisdiction because he “didn’t want diversity,” and the trial judge refused to dismiss him for bias. By 5-2,…
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Appeals court finds longer window applies for claiming violations under minimum wage law
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Resolving an issue that has generated disagreement among federal judges, Colorado’s second-highest court concluded that alleged violations of the state’s minimum wage law are subject to a six-year window for filing a claim and not…
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Colorado justices struggle with juror in Black defendant’s trial who ‘didn’t want diversity’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Colorado Supreme Court this week struggled with the fate of a Black defendant’s convictions in an overwhelmingly White jurisdiction, after a trial judge refused to dismiss a juror who admitted he “didn’t want diversity.” Although the justices have previously addressed cases involving people of…
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Colorado appeals court issues rulings on drug money, Pueblo councilman’s vandalism
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday decided a pair of cases involving financial restitution to crime victims, finding defendants are not obligated to repay police departments for money used in drug purchases and also upholding a Pueblo council member’s duty to pay $3,800 for his vandalism. Under Colorado law, most convictions require judges to consider whether…
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Ex-DPS officer not eligible for unemployment benefits after texting N-word to boss, appeals court says
A former Denver Public Schools safety officer who was fired for sending an administrator the N-word in a text message is not eligible for unemployment benefits under state law, Colorado’s second-highest court agreed on Thursday. Shelly Wright maintained she had not purposefully sent the slur, but rather used voice-to-text under “bright sunshine” and had not…