There is a figurative pendulum in the American criminal law system, and it swings back and forth in a recurrent and sometimes predictable way. Some readers of our Shazam Kianpour & Associates blog posts might remember well the 1960s, a time marked by elevated...
Home-growers can still be criminalized in Colorado
While Colorado has legalized personal marijuana growth, state law places restrictions on both quantity and process for home growers. Failure to comply with these guidelines could result in a felony. In this post, we will go over the state regulations for personalized...
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...
How do you know if a police search and seizure was lawful?
A short answer to the above-posed headline query in today's blog post is this: You often don't know, at least not immediately.And that can obviously be troubling, as well as tremendously consequential, for any Colorado resident who is arrested and sought to be...
Driving While High: Always Illegal in Colorado
Over the last few years, new laws regarding the legalization of marijuana in Colorado have brought many new factors into question. One of these issues regards the combination of marijuana use and driving, which, like alcohol use and driving is still illegal, despite...
Man arrested for drug distribution in Colorado
When police investigate certain crimes, they might suspect a person of a completely unrelated crime during the course of their original investigation. This can result in a person being charged with multiple crimes.Police might say that they were investigating a...
Denver rolls out campaign as legalization of pot grows near
At the start of next year, which is just a few weeks away, marijuana will be legal in Colorado for recreational use. However, many people in Denver are probably wondering what this all means for them. Whether or not you are a proponent of marijuana legalization or...
Customers arrested for alleged purchase of “spice” at store
An alleged synthetic drug ring in Colorado which has claimed to have been the subject of months of investigation by federal agents has resulted in at least nine arrests. Drug Enforcement Administration officials claim to have seized 150 pounds of synthetic marijuana...
Colorado drug crimes may result in disenfranchisement
People who face drug charges in Colorado might believe that if they are convicted they will serve their sentence and that will be the only part of their conviction. However, they might not realize that they might be restricted in their voting rights.Across the...
