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‘About damn time’: Colorado’s chief justice faces little resistance from legal community after authorizing livestreaming halt (opens the original)
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One day after she gave trial judges blanket permission to discontinue livestreaming in criminal cases as required under a 2023 Colorado law, Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez received varying degrees of support from the legal community. “My reaction is: It’s about damn time, and it’s too bad the pause is just a few months,” said retired Denver District Court Judge Morris B. Hoffman. On Tuesday, Márquez issued a chief justice directive to judges ordering a “90-day statewide pause” on the legal requ
Colorado Supreme Court suspends Mesa County judge pending misconduct investigation (opens the original)
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The Colorado Supreme Court suspended Mesa County Court Judge Michael J. Grattan on Thursday amid a misconduct investigation. The court’s Sept. 10 order gave Grattan 21 days to explain why his paid suspension should not continue through the end of his disciplinary proceedings. Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez did not participate in the order and did not provide an explanation for her recusal. Because of the confidentiality provisions built into the disciplinary process, the details surrounding the
Colorado Springs officers’ tasing, threats prompt federal judge to block use of suspect’s statements (opens the original)
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A federal judge blocked the government last month from using some of a defendant’s statements as evidence, reasoning that the defendant made them involuntarily as Colorado Springs officers tased him five times and one officer threatened to kill him. Officers responded one morning in June 2025 to a theft call from a plumbing store in the 3000 block of Mallard Drive. The staff said a man and a woman were the culprits, although they referred to the woman as the one who stole the items. One employee
Denver murder conviction reversed for incomplete self-defense instruction (opens the original)
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Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a defendant’s murder conviction last week because a Denver judge gave an incomplete instruction to the jury about the man’s right to self-defense. Donald R. Gonzales and Gary McLaughlin met up in a Capitol Hill parking lot one night in May 2021 for a sexual encounter in Gonzales’ car. According to Gonzales’ testimony at trial, he noticed his phone and money from the center console were missing after McLaughlin departed. Gonzales exited to find McLaughlin,
Federal judge dismisses excessive force lawsuit against Colorado Springs, officer (opens the original)
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A federal judge concluded last week that a Colorado Springs police officer could not be held liable for shooting a suspect three times after the man menaced two victims with a gun and fled the scene. Al’morion Germany was involved in an altercation inside Nova nightclub around midnight in June 2024 that spilled onto the street. According to his lawsuit, a man and a woman became aggressive toward Germany. He retreated and pointed a gun at the woman, then slapped her across the face with it and kn
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