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Criminal Justice

It’s Official: Denver Marijuana Initiative Signatures OK’d

A proposal to make marijuana the lowest enforcement priority in Denver has leaped over its first major hurdle. Proponents submitted approximately 10,500 petition signatures in...

Hate Mail From The Department Of Justice

What could it be, that would inspire a federal agent to rant against "liberal politcal spin" in an e-mail message sent from a...

Ken Salazar For SCOTUS?

Many people think, based upon the age of sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justces, that one to three of them will leave office early in...

Expert Domestic Violence Testimony Admissible

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled today that judges may allow prosecutors in domestic violence cases to admit expert testimony to explain why a...

We’re Number Two

In 2006, Denver's jail system is the second most overcrowded big city jail in the country at 142% of rated capacity, after Gwinnett County,...

Pictures: Inside Local ICE Lockup

The following pictures were taken by officials with U.S. Government Accountability Office at the GEO Group's ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado. For more on...

New Problems Found In Local ICE Lockup

At times, officers couldn't determine how many individuals were being kept in hold rooms. That's according to a report released by the Government Accountability...

Bad Publicity Not So Bad In Corrections

They've lost a government contract in Colorado. They've been part of a Department of Corrections (DOC) audit where a state official was found to...

UPDATED: Colorado Lawmakers on Libby: Outraged, Disappointed, Appropriate

Democratic Colorado legislators wasted no time condemning President Bush's commutation of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby 30-month prison sentence for his...

Cold Comfort?

Justice delayed can be justice denied.  Sometime in 2003, Juanita Victoria Medina, was convicted of a crime punishable by up to 3 years in...
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