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Adams County judge wrongly canceled child neglect jury trial after mom failed to appear, appeals court finds
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that an Adams County judge who wound up deciding a child neglect case had no authority to cancel the planned jury trial solely because the mother failed to appear at a pretrial conference. A three-judge panel for the Court…
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Colorado Supreme Court modifies ruling in child neglect case, insists mother’s rights were honored
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday took the unusual step of modifying its recent ruling in a child neglect case, explicitly rejecting a mother’s claim that her procedural rights were violated in the welfare proceedings. In January, the court decided that when the government proves a child suffers a single serious bodily injury, even if…