(720) 863-7755The attorneys general from more than 12 states have asked the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) to review a controversial Colorado DUI case. Some of specific issues central to the case include: When police should and should not have the legal authority to take blood samples from unconscious DUI suspects without having warrants to […]
Over the holidays, law enforcement agencies usually increase their focus on DUI enforcement. From staffing more traffic officers over the holidays to running more sobriety checkpoints, DUI enforcement over festive holidays like New Year’s Eve can be far more intensive, and if you are planning on celebrating with alcohol, planning ahead can be critical to […]
Ending our blog series 6 Things that Can Affect Eye Witness Testimony, below we will point out a few more issues that can render eye witness testimony less reliable than it may seem. More Issues that Can Impact the Reliability of Eye Witness Testimony 5 – How eye witnesses are asked about their memories of […]
Resuming 6 Things that Can Affect Eye Witness Testimony (Pt. 1), below, we will reveal a few more issues that can contribute to unreliable eye witness testimony. Additional Things that Can Make Eye Witness Testimony Problematic 3 – Eye witnesses being victims of the alleged crime While victims of crime can provide powerful eye witness […]
Although eye witnesses may seem to provide strong evidence in criminal cases, the reality is that: Eye witnesses can misremember things and/or misidentify people – In fact, as the Innocence Project reports, eye witness testimony is the single biggest contributing factor in wrongful convictions in the U.S., playing a role in more than 70 percent […]
In preparation for the annual state budget proposal, the Denver police department has requested funding for 800 cameras to be worn by police officers at all times. Police-worn cameras caught media attention after the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager who was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. In Brown’s shooting, […]
In June, 2014, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of People v. Schaufele relating to whether police needed a warrant to perform an involuntary blood draw to test for alcohol. The Colorado Supreme Court followed the ruling of the US Supreme Court in the case of Missouri v. McNeely wherein the […]
Under the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 2 Section 18 of the Colorado Constitution, the government may not force a person to testify against themselves in a criminal proceeding. This is commonly known as the “right to remain silent.” Through a long lineage of cases, the Supreme Court determined that invoking […]
Late last month, a man from Garden City, Colorado was arrested for DUI while riding a lawnmower while bar hopping. The man assumedly thought he was outsmarting the police since his license was already suspended from a previous DUI offense, and he thought that by driving a lawnmower instead of car, he was not committing […]
It has been half of a year since the first recreational marijuana stores opened in Colorado creating the first seed-to-sale legalized marijuana market in the world. To sum up how Colorado is doing after prohibition has ended, one should look to the Director of Marijuana Coordination, Andrew Freedman, who stated, “The sky hasn’t fallen.” In […]
