Prescriptions drugs are part of life for a large segment of society. These drugs can improve the user’s quality of life, help battle an illness or medicinally serve the user in some specific way. Because they can be so beneficial, some may want to share their...
Drug Charges
Yes, marijuana is “legal” in Colorado, but …
“With great flower comes great responsibility.” So states with a bit of underlying humor one of many online in-depth analyses spotlighting Colorado marijuana laws. The point that centrally emerges from that overview and additional reports is this: Colorado stands...
Reason to fear: when law enforcers turn rogue
We imagine that many readers of our criminal law blogs at the proven Denver criminal defense law firm of Shazam Kianpour & Associates have heard the phrase “the thin blue line.” That expression refers to the metaphorical wall of protection provided by law...
Sniffing out probable cause: a problematic canine tale
Some people might be a bit amused by the following story. We suspect, though, that most Colorado readers of this blog will not find much humor in it. In fact, they might reasonably regard the details as both shocking and abhorrent. And, indeed, their inclination the...
National spotlight currently focuses on law-and-order issues
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...