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Trying a defendant for the same crime for a second time, known as double jeopardy, doesn’t apply if that first trial was held in a foreign county, the Colorado Court

The Colorado Legislature cannot impose restrictions to a medical marijuana affirmative defense that is expressly allowed under the state’s Constitution, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. In a case involving Palisade peach grower David Cox, a three-judge panel unanimously agreed that Cox’s use of that defense against multiple felony marijuana charges is protected under Amendment 20, the constitutional provision approved by voters in 2000 that legalized medical marijuana. In 2019, Cox was acquitted on seven felony marijuana distribution and cultivation charges after law en...