Author: George Brauchler

Despite significant changes in the past decade weakening our juvenile justice system, things are about to get even easier on violent juvenile criminals. If the early bills of the heavily progressive 2023 General Assembly are a harbinger of what is to come, this legislative session will be as offender friendly as any Colorado has seen.…

Last Thursday, Gov. Jared Polis used his sweeping, unassailable constitutional clemency powers to cut short the sentences of four felons, and he wiped away the conviction of 20 others. Polis’ perennial pruning of the prison population continues to create controversy. Here, the standard set by Polis will work only to the advantage of felons, and…

A mass murderer apprehended at the scene of the crime with his guns has only one possible escape from the greatest sanction available under our law: “I’m nuts.” The Club Q mass shooter is a prime candidate to plead not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). The facts as known do not lend themselves to…

Editor’s note: On Thursday, Anderson Aldrich’s 2021 bomb threat case was unsealed by an El Paso County judge and Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen commented on the 2021 case. Allen said two guns were recovered by law enforcement at the 2021 incident, including a handgun described as a “ghost gun” and a MM-15 5.56…

The aftermath of the blue wave sweeping over Colorado’s midterm elections three weeks ago includes a harder-left General Assembly in 2023 than we have seen in my memory. Previously, I predicted in these pages what I believed this overwhelmingly progressive Legislature likely would do to an already weakened, besieged, and overburdened criminal justice system trying…

George Brauchler Despite an absence of any evidence that an extreme risk (red flag) protection order (ERPO) was appropriate, obtainable or would have prevented the mass murder at Club Q in Colorado Springs this past weekend, some media and politicos have hurriedly impugned the performance of law enforcement and called for an invigorated approach to…