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.
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday announced his appointment of Denver Juvenile Court Judge Pax Moultrie to Colorado s second-highest court, ending the four-year span in which no Black judges sat on the Court of Appeals.
Colorado s second-highest court last week agreed that a Mesa County judge imposed an illegal sentence and also failed to adequately explain why he subjected a defendant to lifetime sex offender registration.
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