Jury nullification is making headlines in Denver and in particular in front of the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse, where activists have been distributing fliers about nullification and fighting charges against other activists who have done the same, since July of this summer. This issue started receiving attention when Denver prosecutors brought charges of jury tampering against two activists […]
Category Archives: Criminal Defense
About a month ago the Internet blew up over the killing of Cecil the lion, a 13-year-old lion living in a Zimbabwean preserve, by an American dentist named Walter Palmer. The dentist paid a professional hunter and guide $50,000 for the experience. However, after the animal’s skeleton was discovered, skinned with his head removed, it […]
Last week, the jury in the Aurora theater shooting trial found James Holmes guilty on all 165 charges against him and the spotlight will continue to shine on this trial as the court shifts into the sentencing stage – deciding whether or not Holmes should receive the death penalty for his crimes. With this case […]
Exercise Your Right To Remain Silent Generally when the police contact an individual who is suspected of a crime, whether or not the subject of that investigation has committed a crime or not, the best advice for that subject is to remain silent. Here’s why. Anybody who is accused, charged or prosecuted with a crime […]
In order to get charged with a criminal offense in Colorado, the police are going to be involved in some way. This means any law enforcement agency. One common way a person may get charged is if a police officer directly observes a person engaged in a criminal act. Another way is if a citizen […]
I often get questions about bond or bail; What is it? How does it work? So the short version is this: If you’re arrested for an offense the police can give you a summons which allows you to just walk away with a ticket but if it’s more serious, they’re going to make you post […]
Sealing Records in Colorado We get a lot of questions about sealing records in Colorado. Can I get my record sealed? How do I do it? Well there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is, there’s still a lot of cases that can’t be sealed. They simply aren’t eligible and unfortunately, you just […]
Your Right to Remain Silent We have all seen it in TV shows and in the movies, “You have a right to remain silent and anything you say can and will be used against you.” It’s engrained in our thought process, yet if we’re ever in that situation where we’re pulled over for a traffic […]
DUI Cases in Colorado Not a week goes by where a client doesn’t ask me, “Should I have taken the voluntary roadside maneuvers?” Well unfortunately, the answer is, “Yes, you really probably shouldn’t have taken those.” They’re voluntary, for one. It’s in the name. The fact is that by the time the police get to […]
Denver Police Chief Robert White has requested 800 body cams for his police force. This request comes in an effort to make his agency more transparent in the wake of several documented cases of excessive force complaints that have dogged both the Denver Police Department and Denver Sheriff’s Department in recent years. The Michael Brown case in Ferguson, […]