Tag: Pete Lee
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Colorado Supreme Court tells Weld County to follow state redistricting law
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Weld County must comply with the state law governing how boards of county commissioners are to draw their districts, and the county needs to adopt new maps by next year’s election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Following the 2020 census, it was undisputed…
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El Paso County district attorney won’t seek charges against former state Sen. Dennis Hisey
The District Attorney for Colorado Springs, who indicted a Democratic senator on voter fraud tied to residency, has decided not to charge a Republican senator with committing a similar offense. The case involves former state Sen. Dennis Hisey, who was elected to represent Fountain in Senate District 2 in 2018 but ran for a different…
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Indictment against state Sen. Pete Lee dismissed
An indictment against state Sen. Pete Lee has been thrown out by an El Paso District Court judge, who cited erroneous information presented to a grand jury in August. Lee, a Democrat from Colorado Springs, said Judge Eric Bentley dismissed the indictment following an hour-long hearing Friday morning. Bentley’s order is not yet publicly available, but…
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DA balks at effort to dismiss voting complaint against state senator
The district attorney who obtained a grand jury indictment against state Sen. Pete Lee is continuing to fight for the complaint to go forward to trial. Lee, D-Colorado Springs, was indicted in August on one class 5 felony charge of falsifying his residency information for voting purposes. Last month, Lee’s attorney filed a motion to…
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District attorney to move forward on Sen. Pete Lee indictment
The Fourth Judicial District intends to move forward on a felony charge filed against state Sen. Pete Lee, despite District Attorney Michael Allen’s office acknowledging it presented incorrect information to a grand jury. Allen’s office in a tweet Wednesday said despite receiving an update on a key part of information cited by prosecutors, “the evidence continues…
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State Sen. Pete Lee indicted on felony charge of falsifying residence information
Updated at 9 p.m. with statement from Sen. Lee. An El Paso County fourth judicial district grand jury has indicted state Sen. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, on a Class 5 felony charge of falsifying his residence address for electoral purposes. Lee, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, is known for his sponsorship of criminal justice…
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Homicides in Denver: Nearly half of all recent arrests tied to person under supervision
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last words Christopher Rhodes remembers his ex-girlfriend telling him as she gasped her dying breath echo deep in his soul months after her killing. He found Taryn Meyer, the cellphone in her hand, the 911 dispatcher still on the line. Meyer was slouched behind a…
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Results of fraud audit into Colorado judicial misconduct memo may never become public
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court this week handed over for investigation to the Colorado State Auditor’s Office a memo detailing nearly two dozen instances of judicial and administrator misconduct at the heart of an alleged $2.72 million hush money contract scandal, but the public may never…