Tag: Natalie Chase
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Federal lawsuit: Parental alienation theory, collusion jailed Colorado mom for year
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Bias and collusion have marred child custody cases in Arapahoe County, including one in which a judge terminated a mother’s right to parent her three daughters and jailed her for more than 10 months for violating a gag order barring her from publicly protesting, a federal lawsuit contends. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to…
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Arapahoe County judge was wrong to condition parents’ visits with child on drug tests: Appeals court
An Arapahoe County judge had no apparent legal basis to require two parents to submit to sobriety tests as a condition for visiting their child, Colorado’s second-highest court determined last week. Former District Court Judge Natalie T. Chase declined to permit a mother and father to resume in-person visits with a child identified as A.P.…
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Former Arapahoe judge’s bias not grounds for overturning conviction, appeals court says
Colorado’s second-highest court has waved aside the notion that the racial bias of a former Arapahoe County judge deprived a Black defendant of his constitutional rights, determining its own review of the trial has now “purged the case of any taint.” In April of last year, the Colorado Supreme Court censured and accepted the resignation…
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Colorado Court of Appeals rules gag order may be unconstitutional but mother of 3 slow to file appeal
A judge’s gag order barring a mother of three from speaking out against a ruling terminating her parental rights may have been unconstitutional, but the mother lost her right to challenge her contempt citation that landed her in jail because she failed to make a timely appeal, the Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled. “A…
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Filing seeks to release mother jailed for criticizing judge’s order terminating parental rights
An Arapahoe County mother of three has been incarcerated for more than nine months due to a “series of confusing and unconstitutional orders” that barred the woman from discussing with others or speaking out against a ruling terminating her parental rights, a court filing states. The orders came from former District Court Judge Natalie Chase,…