Tag: Sentencing
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Appeals judge argues prior decision on defendant’s ‘3-strikes’ sentence was wrong
A member of Colorado’s second-highest court argued on Thursday that a defendant stands wrongfully sentenced under the state’s “three-strikes” law, and an earlier appellate decision saying otherwise was incorrect. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel agreed that Kiki Lamount Douglas’ 96-year prison sentence was likely excessive. Originally, Douglas’ trial judge multiplied the maximum sentence as…
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Man sentenced to 13 years in prison for Golden police officer’s death
Stephen Geer, the man responsible for the death of 33-year-old Golden police officer Evan Dunn — the first on-duty death in the Golden Police Department’s history — was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Wednesday. Geer pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular homicide and one count of vehicular assault in October. Police, firefighters…
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Colorado justices splinter over approach to sentencing review
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court were divided on Monday about whether vehicular homicide stemming from intoxicated driving is “grave and serious” in every possible scenario, with two justices suggesting the court reconfigure its approach for determining the proportionality of criminal sentences. The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment means sentences cannot be…
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Denver man sentenced to life in prison for South Platte River Trail homicides
A Denver man will spend his life in prison after killing two people on the South Platte River Trail. A Denver District judge sentenced Tanner Fielder to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday in connection to the 2023 deaths of 43-year-old Jeremy Hutcheson and 31-year-old Lluvia Robles-Banuelos, according to a news release…
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Colorado funeral home co-owner gets 20 years in prison on federal charges
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • Shackled at the ankles and wrists, Jon Hallford — co-owner of the infamous Penrose Return to Nature Funeral home — appeared calm in federal court Friday morning as a Denver judge handed down a 20-year prison sentence, with three years of supervision, for one count…
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Driver sentenced to 4 years in the death of champion cyclist in Boulder
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge Friday sentenced the woman who hit and killed 17-year-old cycling phenom Magnus White to four years in prison. District Court Judge Dea Marie Lindsey sentenced 24-year-old Yeva Smilianska on a count of vehicular homicide in connection to White’s death on the morning of July 29,…
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Lakewood woman sentenced to 18 years on child abuse charges
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Jefferson County District Court judge sentenced a 27-year-old woman to 18 years in prison Tuesday after severely abusing a child at her unlicensed home daycare. District Court Judge Chantel Contiguglia sentenced Mckinley Slone Hernandez on one count of child abuse — recklessly causing serious bodily…
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Weld County woman convicted of first-degree murder, arson
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A Greeley woman will spend her life in prison after murdering a man and lighting his house on fire in 2021. After a two-week trial, 23-year-old Stacy Rodriguez was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree arson, tampering with a deceased human body and two counts of second-degree burglary by a Weld County jury on Wednesday, according…
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Man sentenced after scamming elderly woman in Highlands Ranch
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A 27-year-old man will spend up to six years in prison after stealing over $120,000 from an 80-year-old Highlands Ranch woman in a gold bar scheme. A 23rd Judicial District judge Victoria Klingensmith sentenced Sagar Jayeshkuma Patel of New Jersey to six years in prison on felony theft charges on Friday. He was also ordered to…