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You’ve heard this before, right? In fact, it’s likely that most Coloradans who have spent any time at all over the years watching crime-linked movies and television shows have heard police officers utter the familiar refrain scores of times. It is kick-started with...
Six months in prison for a homeless man pilfering socks from a department store? A 10-month term behind bars for a woman with cancer who stole $100 worth of food from a grocery outlet? A felony conviction for a defendant who was arrested after shoplifting items valued...
Many readers of this forum’s criminal law blog posts have likely heard the lament that persons convicted of so-called “white collar” criminal offenses in Colorado and nationally secure comparatively lenient sentencing outcomes. That is, it often seems the case that an...
You are hardly alone if a police stop decades ago netted you a criminal conviction for possession of a small amount of marijuana. In fact, you are a member of a large and varied crowd of state residents. Maybe you had the misfortunate as a college student in the 1970s...
“Where justified.” Some readers of an in-depth online article on police prerogatives and behavior might see those words as virtually leaping off the page. They immediately spotlight legal limitations on law enforcers’ conduct and underscore key checks and balances in...
What’s the big deal? That is the question that legions of Colorado residents might logically pose to themselves in the wake of being cited for a so-called “municipal” crime. Here’s why: Such an infraction sits in stark contrast to a felony charge, which links to...
Today’s blog post continues its scrutiny of matter introduced in a recent entry. Namely, that is the troubling issue of wrongful criminal convictions that occur with distressing frequency across the country. We noted that scourge in our September 21 blog offering,...
The criminal justice realm in Colorado and nationally will always comprise top-tier subject matter when it is spotlighted in conversation or a news piece. And that is logically so, because virtually everything about it is of an ultra-serious nature. The outcomes of...
Many readers of this blog might regard a reference to the term “universe” to be entirely reasonable in any discussion focused on the Internet. It certainly incorporates the elements we might commonly think of, doesn’t it? It is huge beyond comprehension. Experts...
It’s not always immediately clear. That is a safely couched threshold answer to the above-posed headline query leading off today’s blog post. Indeed, a self-defense-or-assault determination can often be a challenging and difficult call to make for law enforcers and...
