High rate of Colorado plea bargains undermines right to trial by Jury
Californian Brian Banks wanted to pursue a professional football career. Instead he spent six years in prison for a crime he did not commit. After he was accused of rape and kidnapping in 2002, reports...
View ArticleColorado legislature has the chance to set a standard on Amendment 64
Last November Colorado voters resoundingly passed Amendment 64 into the state constitution, legalizing both recreational marijuana and industrial hemp. So far, realizing the will of the voters is on...
View ArticleColorado’s proposed driving while stoned standard both arbitrary, highly flawed
This week Colorado’s House Judiciary Committee, keen to protect the public from newly legal pot smokers who might get behind the wheel after one puff too many, unanimously approved a bill that would...
View ArticleColorado’s prison budget not a jobs program
If we want more prison cells, empty or full, we simply need to pay for them. It is no more complicated than that, as seen in a recent government transaction documented in The Colorado Springs Gazette...
View ArticleDon’t let tragedy derail Colorado’s criminal justice reform efforts
The horrific murder of Colorado’s corrections chief, Tom Clements, has raised questions about recent criminal justice reform efforts, and specifically 2011′s Senate Bill 176. However, the great, untold...
View ArticleSenate Bill 250: A net reduction in drug war stupidity
On May 1st, Senate Bill 250 passed out of the Colorado Senate with an overwhelming 34-1 vote. At more than 70 pages, the bill is a re-write of much of the Colorado Uniform Controlled Substances Act...
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JonBenet Grand Jury Indictment Might Re-Ignite Case
JonBenet Ramsey was deliberately murdered in 1996 after she came home from Christmas dinner. It was First Degree Murder. Death came from the deliberate twisting of a garrote placed around her neck. For...
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HB 1283: Prescription drug monitoring bill does more harm than good
Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem, sometimes a fatal one. But the answer is not for the government to monitor and harass people who suffer from devastating pain — and make it harder for them...
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HB 1131: “Cyberbullying” bill violates the First Amendment
On March 12, the Colorado House passed House Bill 1131, on “cyberbullying of a minor.” While undoubtedly well-intended, the bill as written is an unconstitutional restriction on protected speech, and...
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Alleged robbery at Mayor’s office generated no report
The Denver Post had a great report this weekend about a new 911 protocol, headlined, “‘Dignitaries’ get enhanced 911 response in wake of new Denver rules.” The Post reports that in October of last...
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MORE VIDEOS OF IDAHO TROOPER SEEMINGLY BUTTRESS ALL SIDES OF POT POLICING...
Newly obtained dash cam footage of the same Idaho State Police trooper who allegedly “license plate profiled” a Colorado driver will have something for everyone. Those who think police outside of...
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Hickenlooper suggests full clemency an option if death penalty becomes too...
Audio obtained by Complete Colorado has raised significant new issues regarding Governor John Hickenlooper’s stance on the death penalty. In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Colorado Governor...
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Colorado’s death penalty an unjust joke
(Editor’s note: As the decades old Nathan Dunlap death penalty case is again in the news, Complete Colorado found and is re-publishing this predictive 1993 op-ed, by then Colorado State Senator Bill...
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Has ‘license plate profiling’ spread from CO to Washington?
Has “license plate profiling” spread from Colorado to Washington drivers? A driver with Washington tags thinks so, and has sent us video of his pullover in Idaho. Idaho became the center of the...
View ArticleSilverman: Dear Gov, thanks for being more enlightened than us
Good for you, John Hickenlooper. The death penalty abolitionists have been waiting for you. They expected you sooner but all’s well that ends well. You showed such bravery last winter coming out to CNN...
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Shepherd: Where my support of the death penalty is unwavering
As an issue for the Colorado electorate, the death penalty has reinserted itself strongly into the public debate, thanks in part to the reporting of this website, and your author. Like many Coloradans,...
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Body-worn cameras protect both police and the public
Had the shooting of Missouri teenager Michael Brown been caught on tape, we might have been spared another round of racial strife this country doesn’t need. Video would improve the odds of truth and...
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Silverman: Let’s look at how CNN produced death penalty documentary
The Nathan Dunlap episode of Death Row Stories was good. It could have been great. All CNN had to do was play its explosive footage of Governor John Hickenlooper’s lame duck clemency assurances. CNN...
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Dept of Corrections wants less solitary, more “leisure time” for death row...
An internal email from the Department of Corrections (DOC) shows the beginning formulations of a new policy to give death row inmates more autonomy inside the Sterling prison, including “leisure time”...
View ArticleSilverman: Bill Cosby in Colorado
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please be aware the following column contains frank language about violent sexual crimes. Colorado law provides that: in the prosecution of sexual offenses, including in proving the...
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