Tag: reasonable suspicion
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10th Circuit agrees Aurora officer unconstitutionally detained man
The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed last week that an Aurora officer unreasonably detained a Black man who looked nothing like what a 911 caller reported, resulting in a constitutional violation that required evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out. Officer William Idler approached Lyndell Daniels in the parking lot of…
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Federal judge bars government from using seized narcotics in drug trafficking case
A federal judge last month barred the government from using more than two dozen pounds of narcotics seized from a vehicle as evidence against the defendants because a Colorado state trooper violated the prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. When Trooper Joshua St. Onge pulled over Ezequiel Pita-Chavolla and Manuel Pacheco for a traffic infraction,…
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Colorado lawmakers face $170 million budget shortfall; Supreme Court upholds search without warrant for student under ‘safety plan’; Colorado’s jobless rate increases | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is March 26, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Colorado lawmakers adopt cuts, hard choices as state faces $170 million budget shortfall The news that revenues would make for a tight budget year wasn’t unexpected. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); And even with the hole, the JBC went with the more optimistic forecast from…