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What happens if police don’t read you your rights? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
A commonly held belief is that if you are arrested and the police fail to read you your rights, your case will be invalidated and possibly dismissed. This belief is not, however, accurate. If police...
Statute of Limitations in Colorado 23 Aug 2013 | 02:18 am
One legal concept I frequently get questioned about is the statute of limitations. Different offenses have different applicable statutes of limitations, meaning that different offenses have different...
Innocence Condemned: Five Cases of Outrageous Injustice 23 Jul 2013 | 07:59 pm
In December 2012, Katie Couric reported on two highly emotional stories, in which innocent victims lost years of their lives in prison for crimes they did not commit. The case of Thomas Kennedy sounds...
Right vs. Rights: When CAN I Use My Gun? 19 Jul 2013 | 12:38 am
Recent legislative actions and court proceedings have brought the right to bear arms and self-defense into the national limelight. Most people live with the understanding that they have the right to o...
When Police Don’t Need a Warrant to Search Your Home 5 Jul 2013 | 10:10 pm
Typically, a warrant is required to search inside of a home or in the area immediately surrounding and associated with a home (an area known, legally, as the curtilage of the home). However, there ca...
Colorado Supreme Court Addresses Admissibility of Lab Reports in DUI Cases 5 Jul 2013 | 09:36 pm
In Marshall v. People, the Colorado Supreme Court addressed the admissibility of lab reports in DUI and DUID cases. In that case, the prosecution had sought to admit the lab test results performed by...
Colorado’s Chief Parole Officer Fired – Will This Put Current Parolees Under More Suspicion? 28 Jun 2013 | 10:15 am
On June 13, Colorado’s Chief Parole Offer, Tim Hand, was fired after the murder of the state’s corrections chief Tom Clements. The chief suspect in the murder is parolee Spencer Ebel, a white supremac...
Affirmative Defenses to Criminal Charges 27 Jun 2013 | 02:11 am
An affirmative defense is essentially a legal justification for having committed a crime; that is, the defendant admits to having committed the crime, but raises a defense that if true would excuse hi...
Aaron Hernandez Held Without Bail 27 Jun 2013 | 12:25 am
A case receiving significant media attention this week is the case of former Patriots’ player Aaron Hernandez, who now faces murder charges in the state of Massachusetts. He is being held without bai...
Law Enforcement Can Now Obtain Call Location Without a Warrant 24 Jun 2013 | 09:34 pm
Previously, law enforcement needed to obtain a warrant prior to acquiring call location information. A recently passed bill changes that, although only for emergency situations. In order to thus obt...
