“Because it’s money.”That was the bottom-line rationale delivered last week by a federal Drug Enforcement Administration official underscoring the reason for a described “huge” search-and-seizure operation conducted across the Denver metro area.That sting was large,...
Month: May 2019
Spotlight on Colorado’s exacting vehicular homicide law
Regular readers of our criminal defense blog posts at Denver-based Shazam Kianpour & Associates note well our recurrent stressing of one fundamental point concerning Colorado law relevant to drunk driving.That is this: It is harsh and uncompromising. State drivers...
Denver to “deprioritize” criminal penalties re psilocybin mushrooms
A Denver advocacy group states that the health and healing benefits are so clear and long-established that “one arrest is too many for something with such low and manageable risks.”The targeted subject matter of that Decriminalize Denver utterance is what is formally...
Not always partisan: What do most CO lawmakers agree on?
Here's a workable definition for the expression "fool's errand:" locking people up in prison or releasing them from incarceration without attendant rehabilitation programs to assist them.So says Colorado Sen. Pete Lee (D-Colorado Springs), who has been a long-time...