Tag: preliminary hearing
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Appeals court reinstates Garfield County arson charge
Colorado’s second-highest court reinstated a Garfield County defendant’s arson charge on Thursday, concluding a trial judge improperly credited a witness’s claim that she alone was responsible for starting the fire. A sheriff’s deputy responded to a brush fire near Parachute in May 2024, next to a residential neighborhood. Witness statements and video evidence suggested Tiana…
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New details in May 2024 shooting death introduced at hearing
A tip from Utah law enforcement prompted the arrest of a suspect in the May 2024 shooting death of Paul Cordova, 49, near Interstate 25 and South Nevada Avenue, according to testimony in the defendant’s preliminary hearing Monday. Brendan Briggs, 26, is accused of shooting Cordova in the abdomen, leading to his death, on May…
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Colorado Supreme Court may address Denver juvenile prosecution, one man’s deluge of cases
The Colorado Supreme Court signaled last month that it may intervene in an ongoing criminal case against a defendant seeking to be tried as a juvenile, and potentially stop a man from continuing to sue the same group of people after a steady stream of judges has disposed of his claims. In the first case…
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Colorado Supreme Court recognizes defendants may appeal magistrates’ probable cause rulings
Addressing an issue never previously decided, the Colorado Supreme Court clarified on Monday that criminal defendants do have the right to appeal a magistrate’s decision that probable cause exists to hold a trial on the charged offenses. Colorado law provides for preliminary hearings, whose purpose is to screen out cases where prosecutors do not have probable…
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Colorado Springs ‘peeping Tom’ suspect waives right to preliminary hearing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The man allegedly behind a sexual assault and a spree of peeping tom incidents waived his right to a preliminary hearing Friday morning in court. Troy Deck, 54, was arrested in both Dec. and Jan. is facing a plethora of charges related to crimes occurring…
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Colorado Springs ‘peeping Tom’ suspect waives right to preliminary hearing
The man allegedly behind a sexual assault and a spree of peeping tom incidents waived his right to a preliminary hearing Friday morning in court. Troy Deck, 54, was arrested in both Dec. and Jan. is facing a plethora of charges related to crimes occurring between Dec. 2022 and Dec. 2023 including at least 13…