Tag: probation
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10th Circuit to address resentencing of probation violators in rare all-judges hearing
The Denver-based federal appeals court agreed on Thursday to hold a rare all-judges hearing to determine the proper procedure for resentencing a criminal defendant who has violated the terms of his probation. In the federal appellate courts, the vast majority of cases are decided in three-judge panels. Occasionally, the courts will vote to have all…
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10th Circuit rejects defendant’s theory for re-sentencing probation violators
The Denver-based federal appeals court rejected a defendant’s theory for re-sentencing people who violate the terms of their probation last month, with one judge defending his precedent-setting framework from possible full-court review. At the same time, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit agreed the trial judge who sentenced…
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10th Circuit orders resentencing after government concedes man’s serious probation violation cannot stand
The Denver-based federal appeals court granted an unusual joint request between the prosecution and the defense on Wednesday, directing a judge to resentence a man who was incorrectly found guilty of a severe probation violation. There are multiple classifications of federal probation violations, with Grade C being the least serious and Grade A being the…
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Colorado justices allow sentences of probation after prison, even though prison-plus-probation illegal
Even though the Colorado Supreme Court ruled five years ago that sentences of prison plus probation are illegal, the justices decided on Monday that judges were permitted to fix those sentences by imposing basically the same punishment. In its 2019 decision of Allman v. People, the Supreme Court ruled that state law treats probation as an…
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Appeals court says no automatic cross-examination of witnesses whose probation ends by trial
If a person was serving a probationary sentence at the time they witnessed a crime, but their probation ended by the time they testified at trial, the defense does not have the right to let jurors hear about that witness’s connection to the prosecution, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. A three-judge panel for the…
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Former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy sentenced to jail for sexual assault
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Jan. 16 after pleading guilty to sexual assault charges last year. Dalton Bridges was arrested in January 2023 after investigators say he made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman, and…
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Former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy sentenced to jail for sexual assault
A former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Jan. 16 after pleading guilty to sexual assault charges last year. Dalton Bridges was arrested in January 2023 after investigators say he made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman, and that when she tried to leave, he grabbed her and…
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Former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy sentenced to jail for sexual assault
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A former El Paso County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday after pleading guilty to sexual assault charges last year. Dalton Bridges was arrested in January 2023 after investigators say he made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman, and that when…
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Appeals court divided over whether La Plata County judge’s illegal sentence is ‘salvageable’
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday agreed a La Plata County judge imposed an illegal sentence, but remained divided about whether it should repair the problem itself. In the underlying case, Jacob Daniel John Jost pleaded guilty in 2023 to criminal mischief and received a sentence of two years’ probation. Later that year, he violated his…
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Colorado Supreme Court tiptoes around prior edict forbidding prison plus probation
Five years ago, the Colorado Supreme Court interpreted state law to prohibit judges from imposing a sentence of prison plus probation in a single criminal case. But on Wednesday, the justices appeared to endorse the idea that judges could resentence affected defendants in a fashion that preserves the same — illegal — punishment. In its 2019 decision…