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Colorado Debates Bill to Reduce Arrests

The Crime Report

A bill which seeks to force police to ticket people more and arrest them less as a means of lowering the state’s jail population is at the center of a statewide debate in Colorado, reports the Denver Post. Instead, police would issue a court summons.

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White nationalist group charged with conspiracy to riot at Idaho pride event released on bail

JURIST

Members of white supremacist group Patriot Front Monday were released from jail on bond after being charged with conspiracy to riot , a misdemeanor. Those arrested included men from 13 states, including Michigan, Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri.

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Man Acquitted of Obstruction in Filming Officer-Involved Shooting

The Crime Report

appeals court that oversees four Western and two Midwestern states became the seventh appeals court to rule that people have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work. In July, a Denver-based U.S.

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Justices asked to review Arizona’s life-without-parole sentencing scheme for youths

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.

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Public Defender Shortages Reaching Critical Levels: Report

The Crime Report

According to the reports, which are the result of two years of research, New Mexico is short more than 600 full-time public defenders across adult and juvenile courts, whereas Oregon is short nearly 1,300 public defenders. ” New Mexico and Oregon.

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Second Chance Justice

The Crime Report

Boulder, Colorado fits the American college town stereotype; young students often spend their free time on weekends partying. The reading of Miranda Rights at the very first encounter with law enforcement reminds us that ‘anything we say can and will be used against us in a court of law.’.

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She Reported Her Medication Was Stolen at a Halfway House. She Was Blamed Instead.

The Crime Report

Soon after Shannon Lucas began serving a sentence at a Colorado halfway house, her medication began to disappear. A 2017 audit of a different Colorado facility, ComCor, found that formal complaints were not “consistently maintained, reviewed or responded to.” ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.