Four days after obtaining a protection order, a woman was stabbed to death by the restrained person. For victims of abuse, whose abusers are obsessed with them and capable of escalating violence, more than a piece of paper is needed.…
It is typically a terrible idea for a crime suspect to speak with police without a lawyer, even if the suspect is innocent. There are several major reasons for this, and one of them is that officers will typically not…
Watch the Youtube clip here: Video of Checkpoint Without video evidence like this, there are many people who would never believe or understand that police can overreach, bully, and even abuse people's rights. This is video evidence of police harassment.…
Colorado amended its theft statute this year, and the biggest change is that the dollar tiers that separate criminal offense levels are vastly different. In general, the tiers became more lenient, but they also created more tiers, both on the…
Thought you had a right to remain silent? Read the fine print. Arguably the second most popular amendment, the 5th Amendment says a person accused of a crime shall not be "compelled in any criminal case to be witness against…
Hawaii's pilot probation program appears to be working: Slate article here. The essence of the program is "swift, certain and proportionate" responses to probation violations, meaning small probation violations lead automatically to jail sentences, which may be very brief for…
7News recently ran a fairly sensational story here about the case-filing decisions of the Denver District Attorney's Office in cases of felony sexual assault. The basic criticism was that the Denver DA, Mitch Morrissey, uses an unreasonably high standard…
In light of widespread marijuana use and driving under the influence cases involving marijuana, Colorado took a controversial step towards answering that question today. The Colorado Senate approved a plan that would allow juries to presume that a driver was…
Miriam Conrad, the lawyer for the Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, expressed the empathetic view of a criminal defense lawyer so well: According to the Associated Press, in a 2006 interview with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Conrad said she does not…
Evidence of a DUI suspect’s intoxication may be disappearing by the minute, but that does not, by itself, give the police authority to conduct an involuntary blood draw without a warrant. The Supreme Court confirmed today, in Missouri v. McNeely,…