Tag: Steve Bernard
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Appeals court agrees lighting person on fire counts as arson
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Colorado’s second-highest court has weighed in for the first time on whether it is arson to light fire to a person’s clothes while they are wearing them — and the answer is yes. John Anthony Vasquez is serving a lifetime sentence after a jury found him guilty of murder for setting fire to Christina Archuleta-Blasier…
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Split appeals court rules Aurora police needed to give Miranda warning to road rage suspect
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s second-highest court has reversed a man’s assault convictions in Arapahoe County because police failed to provide a Miranda warning at the point when their interrogation effectively placed the defendant in custody. A panel of the Court of Appeals decided, by 2-1, that while Aurora…