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Nebraska and Oklahoma’s odd attempt to force pot prohibition back on Colorado
Yesterday Nebraska and Oklahoma sued Colorado, arguing that marijuana legalization there is having spillover effects on neighboring states and should be reversed because it violates federal law. The...
View ArticleWoman details alleged abuse by Cosby in Denver
On today’s edition of the Craig Silverman Show on 710 KNUS, a woman named Barbara Bowman gave in-depth detail of her allegations of abuse at the hands of comedian Bill Cosby. Bowman grew up in Golden,...
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Blake: Law enforcement nibbles away at ambitious civil forfeiture bill
Rookie state Sen. Laura Woods started by “swinging for the fences” when trying to cut down on civil forfeiture abuse by law enforcement. But strong opposition to her Senate Bill 6 by police chiefs and...
View ArticleDept. of Corrections suffers another short tenure departure
The Department of Corrections has suffered another short tenure high-level management departure. This January, Parole Director Walt Pesterfield announced his resignation after less than one year on the...
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Judge appoints special prosecutor for Dept of Natural Resources Director
*Must credit CompleteColorado.com unless you or your news agency independently produced this news prior to our publishing* According to documents obtained by Complete Colorado, a District Court judge...
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House Bill 1290 affirms core right of Coloradans to record police
After a number of controversial recent incidents involving police use of force, the issue of filming the police is getting lawmakers’ attention in Colorado. Numerous bills concerning police procedure...
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Beware biases in capital case analysis
Let Colorado’s latest death penalty trial begin. It will be intense. It’s a matter of life or death. There will be lots of media coverage and analysis. Colorado Public Radio recently had a preview...
View ArticleState employees union drives hard at “low morale” in Dept of Corrections
After a recent shooting in Aurora which involved Department of Corrections (DOC) parole officers, the union of state employees (Colorado WINS) sent out a blistering email claiming morale is low because...
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Vandals tag small Denver Police memorial sign
Sometime in the past week, vandals tagged a small sign on East Colfax which memorializes fallen Denver Police Department Officer Merle Nading. Nading was killed in the line of duty in 1971. The sign...
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Denver DA’s prosecution of jury nullification pamphleteer runs afoul of First...
Last week Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged a local political activist, Mark Iannicelli, with seven counts of jury tampering, a felony punishable by one to three years in prison, for...
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DPD Nading memorial vandalized a second time
For the second time in four months, the Denver Police Department’s memorial sign to fallen officer Merle Nading has been vandalized. This second vandalizing comes at roughly the same time the DPD...
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Drug use by parolees on four year upward climb
View image | gettyimages.com For the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC), the percentage of positive drug tests has risen steadily since 2011 in the three major categories measured: regular...
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CORA request unearths suspicious activity in Mississippi
Credit: Wikimedia Commons user DoxTxob *Must credit Complete Colorado* Records produced by a Colorado Open Records Act request (CORA) have unearthed recent suspicious activity in Mississippi. Complete...
View ArticleAnalysis: Robert Dear vs ‘Roe v Wade’
View image | gettyimages.com The criminal case of People of the State of Colorado v. Robert Lewis Dear will involve three primary accusations of First Degree Murder – After Deliberation and assorted...
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Lt. Governor’s parolee son now an absconder
Joaquin Garcia – credit: Colorado Department of Corrections A spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections confirms the parolee son of Lt. Joe Garcia, Joaquin Garcia, is now an absconder. The...
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Legal analysis: The Death Penalty and Robert Dear
I wrote last weekend of some thoughts likely running through District Attorney Dan May’s mind as he contemplates seeking capital punishment against alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear....
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Hickenlooper’s baseless verbal assault on law-abiding gun owners
In the aftermath of the criminal attack on the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, public officials should be helping the community come together to heal, and supporting the survivors and...
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Parolee accused of murder held up as model of reform by DOC management
Calvin Johnson The Denver District Attorney’s office has charged Calvin Johnson, 44, of first degree murder for the New Year’s Day death of Leon Teodora. The probable cause affidavit released by the...
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US Dept. of Homeland Security loses 1,300 badges and credentials in 31 months
According to a spreadsheet of lost, damaged and destroyed items, various agencies inside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported over 1,300 badges and credentials lost or stolen, and no...
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Convict was arrested by DOC weeks before allegedly murdering homeless man
Calvin Johnson A convict who supposedly exemplified the success of new parole models but is now facing murder charges following a New Year’s Day stabbing death in an alley near downtown Denver...
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