The Pentagon’s watchdog will investigate the Trump administration’s January decision to uproot the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs and move it to Huntsville, Ala., officials announced Friday.
It did not violate the defendant’s constitutional right to confront witnesses, the Court of Appeals ruled for the first time on Thursday, for his child victim to have a support dog at her feet while testifying against him.
“Put simply, easing a testifying witness’s discomfort doesn’t violate a defendant’s confrontation rights,” wrote Judge Craig R. Welling for the three-member appellate panel.
The Sixth Amendment gives criminal defendants the right to confront the witnesses against them. Colorado’s constitution also enshrines the right to “meet the witnesses . face to face.” Although defendant Cory Rex Collins had argued that confrontation necessarily requires a certain level of subtle emotional and psychological tension between the accused and the witness,” both the trial and appellate courts agreed the presence of the dog violated neither constitutional requirement.
Colorado has received no new concrete information on the size of its incoming vaccine shipments, Gov. Jared Polis said Wednesday, but the state is moving toward its end-of-February goal of
Since 1998, Colorado Preservation Inc. has been working with communities across the state to protect endangered historic buildings, landscapes and archaeological sites through its Endangered Places Program.