You remember the high-profile and much-lauded First Step Act of 2018 if you follow criminal law news stories and developments. And here’s why: The federal legislation that scored broad-based bipartisan endorsement on Capitol Hill and was ultimately signed into law by then-President Trump ushered in with considerable fanfare. Criminal law
Are you familiar as a Colorado reader interested in criminal law topics with secret gag orders? If you are, you’re likely concerned with their issuance and application. If such orders don’t ring a bell for you personally, perhaps they should. A number of criminal law commentators address them with some
Warrants used to do the trick. Now a simple phone call to any one of several supersized tech companies often suffices. Today’s blog post spotlights subject matter central to criminal law probes that has spelled a top-tier and often controversial topic for decades, if not centuries. The focus: authorities’ securing
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 underscores the continued existence of a compelling and
“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 controversial area. Specifically, that is
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 criminal law challenges and defense strategies. It
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 confront when doing so an apparatus of immense resources and
Actually, that question mark concluding the above header query can be safely removed, with the headline simply stated as a fact-based assertion. Because there is really no question about it: Notwithstanding advocates’ routine praising of forensic evidence that plays into criminal probes and convictions, there is actually quite a bit
Coloradans seeking to comply in good faith with imposed probationary conditions often find that to be an easier-said-than-done task. For starters, exactions can be many and varied. Keeping close track of every requirement and following it precisely in every instance can be arduous and sometimes confusing. Individuals striving diligently to
They keep doing it, and the general public – both nationally and unquestionably across Colorado – continues to speak harshly against the practice. And in a stridently persistent way driven by perceived injustice targeting individuals who are often victims rather than wrongdoers. One authoritative Colorado legal source duly cites the
