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‘We were shocked’: Testimony from Boulder shooting defendant’s family members
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‘We were shocked’: Testimony from Boulder shooting defendant’s family members

By Carol McKinley | Colorado Springs Gazette The young woman took the stand, looked at her younger brother and smiled. It was the first time Aisha Alissa had been in the same room with the man on trial for allegedly murdering 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers three-and-a-half years ago. "We were shocked," she said of the day she got the phone call about what police said her brother had done. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE
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Conifer councilman charged in altercation in which teen was allegedly shot in face
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Conifer councilman charged in altercation in which teen was allegedly shot in face

By Austen Erblat, Alan Gionet | CBS Colorado Brent Metz, the Colorado town councilman accused of shooting a 17-year-old boy in the face last week, has been formally charged. Metz is accused of shooting the teen who, along with his friend, say they hopped a fence to knock on a Conifer property owner's door to get permission to take high school homecoming photos. When it appeared no one was home, they went back to their car on the side of the road to write a note for the property owner. According to an arrest report, Metz pulled up in his truck, pulled a handgun and shot the 17-year-old through the windshield of his Audi. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Court watchers blame Supreme Court’s liberal wing for latest leak
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Court watchers blame Supreme Court’s liberal wing for latest leak

By Olivia Prentzel | The Daily Caller The latest leaks about the Supreme Court’s internal deliberations on three major cases involving former President Donald Trump could be coming from a high level member of the minority, former clerks and long time court observers told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Drawing on “details from the justices’ private memos, documentation of the proceedings and interviews with court insiders, both conservative and liberal,” a Sunday report published by The New York Times offered a window into the the justices’ decision making process on three major cases, including Trump v. United States, where the Supreme Court held former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office. The report mainly targets Chief Jus...
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Small town near Vail ends long legal battle with win over developer in $48M settlement
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Small town near Vail ends long legal battle with win over developer in $48M settlement

By Jason Blevins | The Colorado Sun Minturn, a village of about 1,100 people along a defunct railroad near Vail, has bested a $25 billion real estate company, securing a transformative $48 million settlement that ends a long legal battle.  “I don’t think they ever thought that a small town like Minturn would be strong enough to stand up to them. But we did,” said Lynn Feiger, a Minturn councilwoman and nationally acclaimed lawyer who helped the former railroad town win the settlement from real estate giant Lubert Adler. “I always thought Minturn could win if we stayed the course.” It’s been a long course for Minturn, where a Florida golf resort developer named Bobby Ginn dreamed big on the slopes of Battle Mountain above the town. With visions of a private ski hill, golf cour...
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Arguments begin in legal battle over potential TikTok ban before federal appeals court
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Arguments begin in legal battle over potential TikTok ban before federal appeals court

By Patrick Maguire, Scott MacFarlane, Kaia Hubbard | CBS Colorado A long-brewing legal standoff over the popular video-sharing app TikTok got underway on Monday, with arguments in the challenge against a possible ban kicking off.  TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have been under fire by U.S. officials for years over warnings that China's government could gain access to users' data and use it to manipulate or spy on Americans. But a renewed push against the app gained momentum in Congress earlier this year, as lawmakers approved a foreign aid package that included provisions requiring it to be sold or be banned from U.S. app stores. President Biden signed the legislation into law in April, teeing up a countdown for TikTok's sale. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COL...
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Suspect in Trump assassination attempt, Ryan Wesley Routh, appears in federal court in shackles
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Suspect in Trump assassination attempt, Ryan Wesley Routh, appears in federal court in shackles

By Isabel Keane | New York Post The alleged gunman who authorities say tried to kill former President Donald Trump on his golf course over the weekend appeared in shackles in federal court in Florida Monday morning. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was seen wearing dark prison scrubs with his hands and feet shackled ahead of his court appearance, CNN reported. Federal prosecutors have not yet said what charges Routh will face. Routh got within 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain link fence on the edge of his Palm Beach golf course Sunday afternoon while armed with an AK-style assault rifle, authorities say. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
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Colorado mother avoids jail after lawyer argues reunification therapist has history of deadly consequence
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Colorado mother avoids jail after lawyer argues reunification therapist has history of deadly consequence

By Chris Osher | Denver Gazette A Colorado mother avoided further time in jail after her lawyer argued that the court-ordered reunification therapy the mother opposes between her youngest sons and her criminally charged ex-husband was being conducted by a therapist who had a history of tragic, deadly consequences for another mother whose two children were murdered. After a contentious, two-hour hearing, Larimer County District Court Judge Daniel McDonald on Thursday ruled that Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins would not have to spend five additional weekends in the Larimer County Jail and suspended her sentence. The judge also halted any additional reunification therapy sessions between her children, aged 10 and 13, and their father until the resolution of the criminal case pending against t...
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Colorado GOP leadership battle is scheduled to go to trial in October
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Colorado GOP leadership battle is scheduled to go to trial in October

By Jesse Paul | Colorado Sun There may be an answer before Election Day as to who is the real chairman of the Colorado GOP.  A judge in El Paso County this week set a two-and-a-half day trial starting Oct. 14 in the lawsuit filed by Eli Bremer seeking to dislodge Dave Williams from the party’s top post and force him to relinquish the party’s resources. Both Bremer and Williams claim to currently be chairman of the Colorado GOP.  The date of the trial won’t leave much time for the outcome to have an effect on the Nov. 5 election. Ballots start being mailed to voters Oct. 11. Most television ad air time and mailers will have been planned and booked by then.  Still, the outcome of the legal drama will chart the future direction of the state Republican Party.  READ THE...
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King Soopers trial: Alleged shooter yelled “This is Fun!”
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King Soopers trial: Alleged shooter yelled “This is Fun!”

By Carol McKinley | Denver Gazette As gunshots peppered the grocery store, a pharmacist heard the alleged Boulder mass shooter shout: “This is fun! This is such fun!” Sarah Chen, her voice shaking from nerves, told a rapt jury on Thursday that the defendant repeated the shocking statement at least four times. “I grabbed a chair because I didn’t want to die not doing everything I could,” she said during the murder trial in Boulder County. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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DA Linda Stanley to be disbarred over misconduct during Barry Morphew prosecution, state board rules
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DA Linda Stanley to be disbarred over misconduct during Barry Morphew prosecution, state board rules

By Shelly Bradbury | Canon City Daily Record Eleventh Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley will be disbarred for ethical violations and misconduct that largely happened during the high-profile prosecution of Barry Morphew in the 2020 murder of his wife, a Colorado disciplinary board ruled Tuesday. State disciplinary authorities found Stanley made inappropriate comments to the media during the since-dismissed Morphew case, did not adequately supervise the prosecution of the case, caused numerous discovery violations and initiated a baseless, retaliatory investigation into the judge on the case. She also made inappropriate comments to the media in an unrelated case, the board found. “…Nothing short of disbarment would adequately address respondent’s betrayal...
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