Tag: protection order
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Colorado Supreme Court clarifies restraining order violations can always support burglary charge
The Colorado Supreme Court’s majority ruled on Monday that a violation of a restraining order can also serve as a basis for finding a defendant guilty of burglary. Under state law, a person commits second-degree burglary by unlawfully entering or remaining in an occupied structure with the intent to commit “a crime against another person…
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Colorado Springs woman missing, injured man arrested
A domestic disturbance left one person injured and another unaccounted for Sunday in the northwest part of the city, Colorado Springs police said in an online blotter entry. At about 4:15 p.m., police received a report about a disturbance at the 5800 block of Walsh Point in the Rockrimmon area. When police arrived they saw…
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UPDATE: Man arrested with BB gun after triggering shelter-in-place along N. Academy Thursday night
A man accused to have been violating a protection order has been arrested, after triggering an hours-long shelter-in-place warning to a swath of Colorado Springs surrounding the 8100 block of North Academy Boulevard. The man, later identified as 22-year-old Carlos Martinez, was eventually found and arrested on several charges including escape, menacing, false imprisonment, criminal…
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Appeals court clarifies standards for no-contact orders involving children
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last month that judges need to account for certain factors when deciding whether to loosen a defendant’s no-contact order against a child, and an El Paso County judge did not consider the proper criteria when refusing to modify the restrictions. Under state law, judges impose protection orders, also known as restraining…