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Prosecutors in Colorado Springs stand accused of retaliating against a man who sought to publicly criticize their decision to press charges against him.
A civil...
This year’s Denver district attorney’s race is far higher profile than any in memory, yet the three Democrats sparring in today’s primary bemoan that...
Why is local attorney and famed ambulance-chaser Frank Azar so interested in who runs the district attorney offices in at least two districts?
Azar is...
What do you know about your district attorney?
The Denver Justice Project sees this role as the most influential in the criminal justice system. The...
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey's office will not prosecute the sheriff's deputies who fatally restrained Michael Lee Marshall, a homeless, mentally ill man, at...
Denver's district attorney candidates will participate in a forum after the city's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march and parade.
In the midst of the...
District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, do “NOT retry this innocent man!”
That’s the message that the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance plans to send at a...
It has been three and a half months since Denver police fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez. And the world has changed.
Police killings in...