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Prosecutors, defense lawyers blindsided by new ‘reasonable doubt’ instruction
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys were caught off guard on Friday by a small judicial committee’s quiet change to the longstanding definition of “beyond a reasonable doubt” in the template instructions for jury trials. While prosecutors appeared cautiously supportive of the rewrite, defense lawyers…
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Another Adams County conviction due to faulty analogy reversed by Colorado appeals court
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday reversed another defendant’s criminal conviction in Adams County because the trial judge explained the concept of reasonable doubt to jurors using an analogy that lowered the prosecution’s burden of proof. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals deemed it a “close question,” but ultimately ordered a new trial for Tylor…