Criminal Defense

Here is a scenario that serves as a transitional lead-in to today’s blog post on a major federal computer crime law. Meet Jim (or substitute name of your choice). Jim has lawful access at work to a number of computer programs that are restricted to most employees. It...

It’s likely the case that not many Coloradans get passionate or overly animated when it comes to a discussion of the state’s statutorily listed misdemeanors. In fact, the term “misdemeanor” is often perceived by the public to relate to criminal conduct of decidedly...

If you are a Colorado reader perhaps looking for a Latin term deeply relevant to criminal law to highlight your day, here is your can’t-beat-this entry: res judicata. Granted, it’s a mouthful, and hardly a phrase that dominates daily conversation. Its meaning cuts to...

Presidents across the broad spectrum of American history have often walked a fine line when it comes to their oversight and management of the criminal justice system. That realm is of course vast and sprawling. Moreover, it is rife with complexity and a lightning rod...

Who is being asked the question? That is the logical query to be posed concerning the above blog headline. Police officials and municipal money managers across the country strongly endorse a particular tool they routinely claim dampens would-be criminal activity and...

It’s “a multi-billion dollar industry with a lack of federal regulation.” Does that up the odds for problems down the road? Unquestionably, it does, states one professor and criminologist offering comments on a police tool that is recently garnering a fair bit of...

There is a kind of perverse irony attached to the advocacy group National Registry of Exonerations. On the one hand, the organization likely welcomes public recognition and acknowledgment of the important work that it does. On the other hand, that very recognition...

“We’re no longer throwing away people who are redeemable.”   That is less a certainty than it is the expressed hope of one Colorado lawmaker sponsoring a new legislative bill that he and other criminal law reformers want to see modify existing law in one...

Criminal charges spell understandably top-tier concerns for those in Colorado and nationally who face them, having the potential to upend life in an incalculably adverse way. There is no wiggle room on that point, as noted by an authoritative Colorado legal source on...

A candid observation of the American criminal justice system can stress without any real argument that defendants confront a system tilted against them from the moment they are criminally charged. Without proven legal counsel, they stand alone. And they immediately...