Author: Chris Osher
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El Paso County settles developer’s wrongful prosecution lawsuit for $3 million
El Paso County has reached a $3 million settlement with the developer Ray Marshall to resolve his federal lawsuit alleging a former investigator for the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office fabricated evidence and withheld evidence from his criminal defense lawyers. The lawsuit, which sought damages as high as $475 million, alleged Marshall was wrongfully prosecuted…
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Controversial parental evaluator faces suspension and warnings
Colorado court administrators suspended parental evaluator Stephanie Norris from accepting court appointments after finding Norris failed to acknowledge an issue was beyond her competency when a judge appointed her to make custody recommendations in a contentious Moffat County case. The Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office also issued four written warnings against Norris in response to…
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Colorado Attorney General shuts down high potency THC hemp seller
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Monday announced his office has shut down a Greeley firm that was selling over the internet high potency THC intoxicating products derived from hemp. Weiser’s office last week reached a settlement with Gee Distributors, doing business as CBDDY, resolving a consumer fraud lawsuit. The settlement bars the firm and…
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Former Colorado parental evaluator’s deception costs her 4-year prison sentence
Judges throughout Colorado once relied on Shannon McShane’s custody recommendations, but the lies she made to those judge as a court-appointed parental evaluator and her retaliation against a parent who exposed her deceptions landed her a sentence of four years in prison. Denver District Court Judge Alex Myers on Monday rejected attempts by McShane and…
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Terror on Pearl Street: How the attack in Boulder unfolded
Mohamed Sabry Soliman told the female detective that he left in solitude that Sunday to commit his attack, leaving behind an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer with messages to his wife and their five children, and a journal, in their Colorado Springs area duplex. He drove away alone that June 1 morning from his…
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Colorado judge dismisses lawsuit over marijuana testing rules
A Denver District Court judge has dismissed a marijuana cultivator’s lawsuit requesting that she force Colorado to overhaul its testing rules. In a ruling issued on Thursday, District Court Judge Jill Dorancy found that the lawsuit from the cultivator, Mammoth Farms, “attempts to circumvent the process put in place” to implement regulations “prior to judicial…
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Contaminated marijuana prompts Colorado to consider new off-the-shelf testing program
Colorado regulators now concede that so much contaminated marijuana has made its way to the state’s retail shops that they must create a surveillance program for off-the-shelf testing of products to protect consumers. “We know that there are contaminated products that are targeting consumers,” said Heather Krug, a regulatory programs branch chief at the laboratory…
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Contaminated marijuana prompts Colorado to consider new off-the-shelf testing program
Colorado regulators now concede that so much contaminated marijuana has made its way to the state’s retail shops that they must create a surveillance program for off-the-shelf testing of products to protect consumers. “We know that there are contaminated products that are targeting consumers,” said Heather Krug, a regulatory programs branch chief at the laboratory…
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Contaminated marijuana prompts Colorado to consider new off-the-shelf testing program
Colorado regulators now concede that so much contaminated marijuana has made its way to the state’s retail shops that they must create a surveillance program for off-the-shelf testing of products to protect consumers. “We know that there are contaminated products that are targeting consumers,” said Heather Krug, a regulatory programs branch chief at the laboratory…
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Judge rejects bid for emergency cannabis testing overhaul in lawsuit alleging Colorado failed to stop synthetic THC scheme
A Denver district court judge ruled against a cannabis cultivator’s request to force Colorado to immediately overhaul the state’s cannabis testing rules and seemed ready to rule for a complete dismissal of the case, after a full day in court Wednesday arguing over whether the state is living up to its obligation to protect marijuana…