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Colorado attorney general joins lawsuit against Trump administration to uphold DACA

There are an estimated 17,000 people living in Colorado with DACA protections

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A one-day sentencing reduction for some Colorado crimes would help legal immigrants avoid deportation

By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado lawmakers will consider whether to repeal the death penalty again, as factors align for passage

By Jesse Paul Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published

Here is why Colorado didn’t convene a grand jury to investigate priest abuse as Pennsylvania did

By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

Man exonerated in rape case will receive nearly $2 million after Colorado attorney general drops compensation challenge

By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

Denver unveils new system for clearing thousands of low-level marijuana convictions

By The Associated Press Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

Unemployment claims by federal employees up in Colorado as government shutdown drags on

By Tamara Chuang Business Primary category in which blog post is published
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Colorado and the 2018-19 federal shutdown: What’s open, what’s not and what’s kind of open

You can still file a patent but not an IPO. National parks are open but the bathrooms are closed. US Courts are open for another week or so.

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Hickenlooper commutes life sentences of 6 men convicted of murder, including in high-profile Curtis Brooks case

Curtis Brooks was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the slaying of 24-year-old Christopher Ramos in Aurora in 1995

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El Paso County sheriff can’t hold people for immigration authorities, judge rules

Courts in several states have ruled that sheriffs cannot hold people on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement without violating the 4th Amendment

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Denver officials want to clear some 10,000 low-level marijuana convictions, following in Boulder County’s footsteps

San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle announced their similar efforts early this year. Boulder County prosecutors just days ago made their plans public.

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Cargill Meat, union reach $1.7M settlement with 138 Muslim workers at Fort Morgan plant over prayer accommodations

The workers lost their jobs after a dispute about short breaks to allow them to perform obligatory prayers

Environment Primary category in which blog post is published

Amid drought, a changing climate and population growth, can Colorado’s unique water law system survive?

A Q&A with former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, one of the state’s top water experts

Outdoors Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado Ski Safety Act tested in two trials involving in-bounds avalanches

The family of Taft Conlin is continuing its fight with an appeal

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New owner fighting to restrict access to private Cielo Vista Ranch by 5,000 descendants of the San Luis Valley’s earliest settlers

Texas owner tells Colorado Sun that people have built roads, buried trash, harvested timber in violation of 2002 state Supreme Court ruling.

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Pathbreaking transgender attorney Danyel Joffe’s work led to Colorado law compensating people wrongly convicted of crimes

Joffe, who died last month, relentlessly pursued DNA testing to free a man after 16 years in prison and sparked a change in the state's criminal justice system