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On Tuesday, Judge Samour dismissed three jurors from the Aurora theater shooting trial, which is on its 29thday of proceedings. That leaves 21 jurors; 12 designated and 9 alternates.

On May 8th, Governor Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1267 into law, which concerns the use of medical marijuana while an individual is on probation. Before this law, if a person with a prescription for medical marijuana was put on probation, that person could not use medical marijuana or else risk violation of probation

Virtually any time you are stopped and investigated for suspicion of DUI, the officer is going to ask you if you would be willing to perform Standard Field Sobriety Tests, otherwise known as Roadside Maneuvers.

The Colorado state legislature recently passed a bill that is sitting on the governor’s desk waiting his signature. Following a few failed attempts to pass a similar law in recent years, this bill will up the stakes for habitual drunk drivers.

In Colorado and the majority of other states, police officers trained to administer standard field sobriety tests (SFST’s) to a suspected drunk driver. In this blog, we are going to examine one of them- the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test (HGN), and why it is a bogus test that cannot be relied on to determine a person’s intoxication.

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.

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.

NBC just announced that its premier anchor, Brian Williams, will be suspended for 6 months from his desk at NBC Nightly News. The move comes after Williams was caught in several lies (or as he calls them, “conflations”) he told regarding what happened when he was on a military helicopter in Iraq in 2003.

Over the recent past both police departments nationally as well as the Denver police department have been increasingly in the public eye for what many would characterize as a disproportionate use of force. Nationally, incidents like the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the strangulation of Eric Garner in New York, as well as local incidents like this week’s fatal shooting of teenager Jessica Hernandez in Denver, have only increased this scrutiny.

In Colorado, DUI cases are being prosecuted aggressively and that is especially true in Douglas County, Colorado. Douglas County is one of the fastest growing communities in Colorado but it’s still relatively rural.