Colorado s second-highest court last week upheld the 62-month prison sentence of a man who escaped to Arizona while on parole in 2018, even though the offense would now result in
The Colorado Court of Appeals has yet again weighed in on how district judges and prosecutors should handle a new law aimed at minimizing people held behind bars, but it
For the second time in as many months, another convicted resident who was being held in community corrections escaped a felony charge for not returning to authorities when required.
Citing a precedent set in a Mesa County case last month, a three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that District Judge Richard Gurley was correct when he dismissed a charge of felony escape for Austin Urquhart, referring the matter to county court on a lesser misdemeanor count of unauthorized absence. Gurley did that because of a new law approved by the Colorado Legislature earlier this year designed to free up jail space for nonviolent offenders.