Although the Colorado Supreme Court acknowledged on Monday that a Saguache County judge was disqualified by law from presiding over a criminal case because she briefly represented the defendant before her appointment to the bench, a majority concluded there was nothing it could do because the defense knew about the conflict and stayed silent.
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday overruled a 7-year-old decision of the state s second-highest court after a plaintiff, the defendants and even one of the judges who participated in the decision called it incorrect.
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