Colorado

Divorce case sparked attacks on lawyer, judge and others, jurors in murder trial are told

A bitter divorce in which Bruce J. Nozolino lost custody of his children led the former white-collar worker to kill a man with whom his wife had had a brief affair and try to kill his wife’s divorce lawyer, the Colorado judge who heard the case and others, jurors were…

Jan 17, 2014 9:10 PM CST

School called 6-year-old boy’s classroom kiss ‘sexual harassment’ and suspended him

Updated: A 6-year-old Colorado boy was suspended from school for planting a kiss on a classmate. A first-grade student in Cañon City was accused of sexual harassment, KRDO.com reports. “They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong, and I feel sorry,” the boy told the…

Dec 10, 2013 9:15 PM CST

Failed courtroom ID ploy cited in suspension of Colorado lawyer

A Colorado lawyer has been suspended in part because of a failed courtroom ID ploy. The Legal Profession Blog links to the Colorado Supreme Court summary (PDF) of the ethics allegations against Denver lawyer Linda Marie Lee, who will have to serve only six months of a year-and-a-day suspension if…

Nov 26, 2013 12:04 PM CST

Charged in child-sex-attack cases, man plans to point finger at his identical twin at trial

Ordinarily, a DNA match is considered gold-standard evidence linking a suspect to a crime. But for a decorated U.S. Army artillery officer charged in claimed sexual assaults on young girls that may prove to be a different story. The defendant, 1st Lt. Aaron Gregory Lucas was given permission by a…

Nov 18, 2013 6:30 PM CST

Dating website information allowed in trial of accused movie theater shooter

A Colorado judge is permitting prosecutors to use information from dating websites in the trial of accused movie theater shooter James Holmes. Judge Carlos Samour of Arapahoe County ruled on Thursday that Holmes had no expectation of privacy in comments he made on his profile in an effort to find…

Nov 8, 2013 2:24 PM CST

Scammer seeks to profit by imposing ‘fines’ on those who missed jury duty, authorities say

It’s no secret that many people blow off jury duty the first time or two they are summoned. That’s given an enterprising Colorado criminal an idea for a scam, in which he calls up individuals and threatens to arrest them if they don’t ante up to pay “fines” for not…

Oct 29, 2013 10:33 PM CDT

Jailed based on mistaken identity, some who did nothing wrong are held days, weeks or months

At least 100 people have been wrongfully jailed in St. Louis over the past seven years, sometimes for lengthy periods, based on mistaken identities. Yet, through the use of technology, such as fingerprinting, it should have been relatively easy to verify the claims of those wrongfully incarcerated that they were…

Oct 29, 2013 7:05 PM CDT

Busy with Broncos, linebacker Von Miller irks magistrate but finally arrives for traffic plea

It wasn’t like Von Miller had to go very far to get to court, pointed out Magistrate Christina Apostoli at a Monday hearing. After all, the Arapahoe County Court hearing was very close to the Denver Broncos’ training facility. Nonetheless, he was nearly two hours late, she noted. “The court…

Oct 28, 2013 9:30 PM CDT

Never-prosecuted indictment accused JonBenet Ramsey’s parents of helping murder suspect

A once-secret grand jury indictment released today accused the parents of JonBenet Ramsey of placing their child in a dangerous situation and helping a person suspected in the murder. The Denver Post and the Boulder Daily Camera have stories on the 1999 indictment, released as a result of a ruling…

Oct 25, 2013 3:21 PM CDT

Accused movie-theater shooter was denied lawyer for 13 hours

Accused movie-theater shooter James Holmes asked for a lawyer about seven minutes into his interrogation, but police opted to question him later in the day without an attorney present, a Colorado court hearing revealed on Thursday. Prosecutors say police were entitled to question Holmes about defusing the bombs in his…

Oct 18, 2013 12:02 PM CDT

LeClairRyan acquires 11-attorney health care boutique, plants flag in two more states

A growing Virginia-based midsized law firm has expanded its footprint with the acquisition of an 11-attorney health care boutique. LeClairRyan has acquired Adelman, Sheff & Smith, which will continue operating in its existing offices, a Tuesday press release announces. Including the Adelman firm’s offices in Annapolis, Md., and Glenwood Springs,…

Oct 16, 2013 4:50 PM CDT

Judge OKs Christo’s 6-mile, $50M ‘Over the River’ art project as legal battle continues

Finding that a 1,700-page federal environmental review put together by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management adequately considered the environmental risks and planned mitigation measures, a Colorado judge on Thursday gave Christo’s proposed six-mile, $50 million project to drape the Arkansas River with shimmering fabric a green light. However,…

Sep 9, 2013 11:00 AM CDT

Patent leader leaps from Dorsey & Whitney to Brownstein Hyatt

The chief of Dorsey & Whitney’s Denver patent practice group has leapt to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. S. Craig Hemenway, who is also an electrical engineer, is the second Dorsey partner with intellectual property expertise to join the Brownstein firm recently, according to the Denver Business Journal and the Denver…

Sep 5, 2013 4:45 PM CDT

Law firm splits, but partners will still share office space

Partners of a Colorado law firm found they had different ideas about how to market their disparate practices. So they decided to split Donelson Ciancio & Grant into three law firms. However, they will still share the same Broomfield offices and continue to work together when cases draw on their…

Sep 4, 2013 4:30 PM CDT

Pot-permissive states won’t be sued by the Justice Department

The U.S. Justice Department has announced it won’t challenge laws in Colorado and Washington that allow the recreational use of marijuana, even though the drug remains illegal under federal law. Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a memo to U.S. attorneys that the decision was based on “limited prosecutorial…

Aug 30, 2013 3:05 PM CDT