Tag: Colorado Courts
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Parents of baby abandoned Christmas morning formally charged
Jarvis Sims and Christina Thurman, the parents of an infant boy who was left in a car seat on the median of a busy street Christmas morning, were charged with misdemeanor child abuse and reckless endangerment Monday in Adams County court. Sims, 42, who has been held in the Adams County jail since the child…
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‘It never ends’: Colorado lawmaker hopes for justice as court considers retrial in son’s murder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 18 years after Javad Marshall-Fields was killed, his mother, state Sen. Rhonda Fields, said she is still waiting for the fight for justice to end. Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe, were murdered in…
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ACLU of Colorado calls on local governments to let those with felony convictions run for office
The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to 12 Colorado governments Wednesday, demanding they stop barring people with felony convictions from running for public office. This warning comes after the ACLU successfully sued Aurora last year for the city charter’s prohibition of former felons from holding elected office. An Arapahoe County judge permanently blocked Aurora…
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DAs say Gov. Polis undercut justice system by reducing trucker’s 110-year prison sentence
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two Colorado district attorneys slammed Gov. Jared Polis in a letter, saying he undercut the justice system by reducing the 110-year prison sentence of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years after the truck driver was convicted…
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Former Colorado city councilman sentenced to probation for child sex crimes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A former Craig city councilman will avoid jail time after he was caught trying to solicit sex from an underaged girl online. Brian MacKenzie, 50, was sentenced Friday to 10 years of probation in Colorado’s Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Program. He will register as a…
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Shooter gets 32 years in prison for killing 13-year-old boy in Englewood
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in Englewood was sentenced to 32 years in prison last week, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Antonio Pulido Mendez, 19, was sentenced after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder for…