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Talk is, well, cheap. State and federal proponents of criminal law reforms – and there are legions in a progressively expanding camp – voice growing frustration with pro-change rhetoric they say is long on generalities and short on details. A principal with the...
Following is a scenario relevant to the discussion of forcible restraint used by Colorado police officers to extract blood from a suspected drunk driver. The story outlined below conveys in summary form a real-life situation that played out on a Fort Collins roadside....
“Unimpeachable and always reliable.” That is the broad public perception of forensic evidence introduced into a criminal law case in Colorado or elsewhere. We noted in a recent Shazam & Kianpour blog post (please see our December 9 entry from last year) the “it...
Criminal charges against Colorado residents are challenging for a number of reasons. We duly note at the long-established Denver criminal defense law firm of Shazam Kianpour & Associates that individuals routinely face charges "that threaten their livelihood,...
Colorado prosecutors often search for criminal charges they can file that will yield maximum penalties for defendants. Sometimes they struggle to link an individual’s specific conduct to any particularized wrongdoing. Wouldn’t it be nice for them – even if arguably...
We have noted in many prior Shazam Kianpour & Associates blog posts the zero-sum approach that state officials and law enforcers take regarding drunk driving offenses. To wit: If you are arrested on a DUI charge, authorities will diligently seek a criminal...
“We must reimagine the justice problem.” So say a group of writers penning a recent in-depth article on criminal law and reform for the Brennan Center for Justice. That entity is a long-established bipartisan public policy institute with a criminal law reform...
All criminal allegations are not equal. Put another way: Some accusations leveled by Colorado police officers and prosecutors come with comparatively heavy consequences. Take sex charges, for example, which we spotlight on our website at the Denver law firm of Shazam...
Lock them up and throw away the key. Readers of criminal law blogs and other justice-themed articles and reports have heard that refrain before. In fact, they’ve been hearing it or other similarly conveyed utterances for decades. A tough-on-crime approach has been the...
Citizens’ interactions with police across Colorado are not routinely cordial and positive, of course. In fact, things can sometimes be a little tense. Initially civil discussion can ratchet up in intensity or, as we stress at the proven Denver metro criminal defense...
