Tag: Sanction
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Appeals court reinstates felony charge, reverses Denver judge’s sanction on prosecution
Colorado’s second-highest court ordered a Denver judge on Thursday to reinstate a defendant’s felony charge, finding she improperly reduced the severity as a sanction for an officer’s deletion of his body-worn camera footage. Prosecutors charged Russell K. Barnes with vehicular eluding, after police attempted to stop a Toyota 4Runner registered to Barnes but discontinued their…
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Appeals court reverses Fremont County judge’s sanction on DA’s office over evidence misunderstanding
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that a Fremont County judge was wrong to reduce the severity of a criminal charge because she believed the district attorney’s office failed to turn over police reports that, in reality, did not exist. Prosecutors charged Derek Eugene Ruppel in early 2025 with one felony and one misdemeanor count…
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‘Take me up to the 10th Circuit’: Federal judge, civil rights attorney defiant as $18,000 sanction on the line
A federal judge and a prominent civil rights attorney both stood their ground at a hearing on Thursday over an impending $18,000 sanction resulting from a failure to turn over evidence as ordered. Sasha Cronick is pursuing claims of unreasonable search and seizure and false arrest against Colorado Springs officers who handcuffed her minutes after…
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‘Inability to behave’: 2 Colorado lawyers take bickering to federal judge, only to be smacked down
“Unbelievably exaggerated …. profoundly misguided …. nothing of substance.” A federal judge last week excoriated a pair of Colorado attorneys for creating a sideshow in their clients’ case and asking for her to mediate a petty conflict between the men that she saw as a waste of her time. “Interpersonal squabbles among the parties’ attorneys…