Tag: livestream
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Colorado justices weigh constitutional implications of livestreaming criminal trials
With the Sixth Amendment guaranteeing criminal defendants the right to a public trial, members of the Colorado Supreme Court grappled on Tuesday with a question that may have never arisen without a global pandemic: If a judge requires spectators to watch the trial remotely, is there a constitutional violation? In a pair of cases stemming…
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Appeals court finds no constitutional violation from hard-to-hear livestream during trial
Colorado’s second-highest court last week ruled that problems with livestreaming technology during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic did not violate a defendant’s constitutional right to a public trial if observers were still free to watch in the physical courtroom. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the criminally accused the right to a public trial. In…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on pandemic-era trial livestreaming
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold in Colorado, the state Supreme Court announced on Monday it will review the constitutionality of two judges’ decisions to bar spectators from their courtrooms and instead rely upon livestreaming during a pair of criminal trials. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear…
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Divided appeals court upholds Denver child sex assault conviction
Colorado’s second-highest court upheld a man’s sex assault conviction earlier this month, although there was disagreement between appellate judges about whether jurors properly evaluated damaging evidence of the defendant’s conduct in light of his unusual defense at trial. A Denver jury convicted Mohammed Diawarra in 2021 for sexual assault on a child after he impregnated an…
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NEWS | Facebook live video shows events during 2021 bomb threat incident
New footage obtained by The Gazette shows events during a 2021 bomb threat that lead to the arrest of 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, whose name and age match that of the suspect arrested in Saturday’s Club Q shooting. In this screen recording provided by the owner of the house where Aldrich’s mother lived at the…
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Council candidate drops out, endorses Williams
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With only a week before the April 2 municipal election, District 3 City Council candidate Bob Kinsey announced Monday he’s dropping out of the race and endorsing incumbent Brandy Williams. Kinsey said he heard of…
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Council candidate drops out, endorses Williams
With only a week before the April 2 municipal election, District 3 City Council candidate Bob Kinsey announced Monday he’s dropping out of the race and endorsing incumbent Brandy Williams. Kinsey said he heard of polling that showed Williams and another candidate, Keith King, “neck-and-neck” in the race and that he’s not expecting a groundswell…