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The Colorado attorney general’s review of Elijah McClain’s death is unprecedented. Here’s how it may go.
Experts say this appears to be the first time a Colorado governor has asked the attorney general’s office to serve as a special prosecutor on a case already decided on by a district attorney
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Opinion: Amid an epidemic within a pandemic, choose you. Leave victimhood behind.
By Elyssa Nager Opinion
Robberies dropped, fights between roommates spiked: How quarantine affected crime in Colorado
By Kevin Simpson Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
Silverman: Plea bargaining with capital punishment as leverage is over now
By Craig Silverman Opinion
Colorado’s child pornography laws have a major loophole and criminals are “slipping through the cracks”
House Bill 1120 seeks to bring state law into the 21st century by allowing prosecutors to go after people who view -- but don’t necessarily download, share or produce -- child porn
Judge rejects challenge to Colorado wildlife officials’ plan to kill black bears and mountain lions
Judge Robert McGahey, Jr., ruled that Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists can continue with plans to cull mountain lions and black bears from the Piceance and Upper Arkansas River basins
Gov. Polis said he wanted to close a private prison. GEO Group beat him to it, leaving Colorado scrambling.
The Cheyenne Mountain Reentry Center will shutter on March 7, leaving 642 inmates and 180 employees in limbo. Colorado says it will likely mean jail backlogs, parole releases and prison crowding.
Grand Junction weapons company to pay $1 million for selling Army subpar grenade launchers
Capco LLC supplied the Army with M320 grenade launchers between July 2016 and March 2018 even though company officials knew the launchers’ barrels did not meet specifications
A new Colorado law makes possessing 13,000 fatal fentanyl doses a misdemeanor. Prosecutors are worried.
Colorado lawmakers this year passed a bill to reduce incarceration by making possession of 4 grams or less of most drugs a misdemeanor instead of a felony
