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In an unusually brief oral argument before the Colorado Supreme Court, both the attorney general’s office and the defense agreed: trial courts still have the authority to return unlawfully-seized property
In an unusually brief oral argument before the Colorado Supreme Court, both the attorney generalâs office and the defense agreed: trial courts still have the authority to return unlawfully-seized property to criminal defendants for weeks beyond when prosecutors drop charges.
The parties appeared before the justices on Wednesday in opposition to a Court of Appeals ruling last year, which found a Denver judge lost the ability to return firearms and ammunition to a defendant at the instant the prosecutors dismissed the charges against him.
âIf the state still has the defendantâs stuff, there is more for the court to do,â argued Mark Evans, the attorney for Mark A. Strepka, to the justices.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against two Mesa County officials Tuesday, saying they both caused a Boulder woman to be jailed for two weeks for no good reason.
The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court, names Chief Judge Brian Flynn of the 21st Judicial District, which encompasses the county, Mesa County Sheriff Matt Lewis and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle.
In it, ACLU attorneys alleged that Flynn illegally barred judges in his district from setting a bond or allowing Boulder resident Michelle Reynolds to be released on bond or obtain pretrial release, causing her to spend 15 days in jail unnecessarily.