On Monday, a federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of plaintiffs who were seeking nationwide legalization of marijuana under federal law. Among the plaintiffs included a former NFL player and a 12-year-old girl who was forced to move from...
Month: February 2018
CO child abuse-linked statute of limitations bill shot down
Colorado is similar to other states across the country in imposing mandatory reporting requirements upon select individuals having knowledge of sexual abuse being inflicted on children by third parties.The list of persons tasked with that duty is long. As noted on a...
What exactly is the difference between a DUI and a DWAI?
Unlike many other states, Colorado actually has a tiered system when it comes to impaired driving. In fact, depending on a driver’s blood-alcohol-content (BAC) level, they may face very different charges — and different penalties.For example, if a driver in Colorado...
Spotlight on Denver Police Department’s inaccurate crime data
The Denver Police Department is no different from peer organizations across the country in wanting to be as accurate as possible regarding crime reporting and classification. As a recent Denver Post article duly notes, "Inaccurate or false crime data can damage a...
860 already arrested during DUI enforcement campaigns in 2018
There have already been two DUI enforcement periods this year in Colorado: the Winter Blitz, which took place from January 19 to January 29, and a second DUI blitz that ran for three days over Super Bowl weekend. These DUI crackdowns are part of Colorado’s “The Heat...
Colorado governor’s office growingly activist on pot crimes
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's final year in office promises to be busy across a number of fronts.Marijuana-related sentencing reform would reasonably seem to be at the top of the to-do list for the state's leading executive as he deals with 2018 and eyes the...
Spotlight on federal/state collusion in evidence matters, Part 2
The bottom line expressed in our immediately preceding blog post is clear-cut. It underscores the need for a proven criminal defense attorney to subject every piece of evidence against a client to closest scrutiny. We note in our February 5 entry that the importance...
What is “parallel construction,” and should it concern Americans?
Maybe it was nothing more than the lucky break that law enforcers and prosecutors say it was. The driver simply made a questionable lane change on a freeway outside Denver and was pulled over. And, behold, multiple police officers who just happened to converge at the...
Lawmakers reject attempts to close loophole in CO texting law
Last week, we told you about Colorado Senate Bill 49, which is a bill that seeks to close a perceived loophole in the state’s current texting-while-driving law that many believe legalizes texting for certain drivers. Just days after we posted that blog, however, state...