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The legal drinking age in the United States has been 21 years old for decades. However, certain specific exceptions enable those under that age to consume alcoholic beverages legally. These exceptions could come into play at family gatherings or parties on private...
There is nothing new about minors getting caught drinking alcohol. While in decades past, the police would confiscate the alcohol and possibly notify the parents, Colorado law now lists it as Minor in Possession or Consumption of Alcohol (MIP MIC). It is punishable...
Kids and drinking. Whatever one might think about that occurrence, it spells a flat reality in Colorado and across the country. The bottom line: Adolescents – especially teens – sometimes do gain access to alcohol and feel compelled to imbibe. Their desire to do so...
The attorneys comprising the deep legal team at the long-established Denver criminal defense law firm of Shazam Kianpour & Associates think that the answer to the above-posed blog headline query is simple.Moreover, it’s evident from the post title itself.To wit:...
We noted in a recent blog post a particularly disturbing reality for some young people in Colorado and elsewhere connected with the rite of college admission. Our September 24 entry zeroed in on the moment when a hopeful applicant confronts “an application question...
Not every would-be Colorado college student looks forward to the application process. Sometimes that botched ACT or SAT score can look a bit troublesome. Maybe some of those opted-for high school classes weren’t particularly challenging. Some students filling out...
The following tale is a story that is retold with similar details time and again across the United States. It involves a mass congregation of teenagers, a weekend evening and the apparent widespread availability of alcohol. What could go wrong with that combination of...
Most adults, and certainly defense attorneys who routinely protect the legal rights of juveniles in criminal law matters, remember what it was like to be young.It was, in a word, challenging. It was also a time of optimism, exuberance, friendship forging and creating...
The so-called “Miranda Rights” that law enforcers are legally obliged to timely explain to criminal suspects in custody certainly have a critically important purpose. Most essentially, of course, they inform affected individuals of their right to not speak with...
Following is a hypothetical (as well as real-life) scenario applicable to Colorado juveniles under the age of 21. You consumed a single alcoholic beverage a short time ago and flatly know that you are not a danger to yourself or anyone else if you get behind the wheel...