At least half a dozen of the state s 22 judicial districts have temporarily halted jury trials, owing to the highly contagious Omicron variant and the resulting explosion of COVID-19 infections
More than 929,000 people in Colorado have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 50,700 have been hospitalized as of Sunday, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
“We are drowning in cases,” Beth McCann, the district attorney of Denver, testified last month. “My attorneys, they’re having anxiety attacks, migraines. They have trials set every month for the