Subject: Appellate Trials

• Smoked

  August 3, 2006

• Macho Nacchio Man

  August 23, 2007

• Judge Kuenhold's Harmless Errors

  September 7, 2007

• Put Up or Shut Up

  Want to fight a real estate development in Colorado? Be ready to pay to play.

  April 2, 1998

• Scene From a Mall

  Shopping-center execs love getting attention in the media -- as long as they call the shots.

  December 21, 2000

• Follow That Story

  August 16, 2001

• Follow That Story

  December 20, 2001

• Follow That Story

  January 23, 2003

• Not a Pretty Picture

  When you're fighting for artists' rights, things can get ugly.

  July 9, 1998

• Packing It In

  An Aurora mother loses custody of her son--for moving too much.

  October 9, 1997

• Kink in the System

  Commerce City is taking the Enclave BDSM club all the way to the Supreme Court.

  June 7, 2007

• Legally Binding

  The Enclave gave Commerce City quite a beating in court.

  April 19, 2007

• When Mistakes Don't Matter

  The Colorado Court of Appeals upholds a sentence based on questionable evidence.

  February 22, 2007

• Dirty Pictures

  This Rocky Flats movie gets glowing reviews.

  October 27, 2005

• Pop Quiz

  Bummer Summer
  August 21, 2003

  August 21, 2003

• The High Cost of Free Speech

  RTD pays a six-figure settlement for muzzling its own directors.

  July 31, 2003

• Surprise Ending

  Eulipions money set aside for theater may go to fund other black arts groups.

  April 19, 2001

• Telling Tales Out of School

  After her retarded daughter was sexually assaulted, a mother decided to teach DPS a lesson.

  October 19, 2000

• A State of Denial

  Denver's legal team takes a beating in a police-brutality case.

  October 12, 2000

• Juris Prudence

  DA Dave Thomas surrenders the case against wayward juror Laura Kriho.

  August 17, 2000

• Men in Dragnet

  The Arvada Police Department likes to put on skirts and chase pedophiles.

  July 29, 1999

• Location, Location, Location

  Nobody likes Bob Eason. Maybe it's because he has all the wrong (property) values.

  May 27, 1999

• Letty Wins

  The Court of Appeals reverses a probate judge's controversial handling of the Letty Milstein case.

  February 12, 1998

• Motion to Dismiss

  Should Judge Lynne Hufnagel be benched? Ask the bankrupt cabbies, bullied witnesses and banished lawyers who've tasted her bitter brand of justice.

  October 24, 1996

• Trial by Ire

  The candidates in the Denver's DA's race refuse to come to order.

  October 17, 1996

• A SWEET DEAL

  NEED A TAX BREAK FOR THE NEW YEAR? CONSIDER RAISING BEES, DONKEYS, HAY OR, AS A LAST RESORT, A STINK WITH THE COUNTY ASSESSOR.TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE? FOR A SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPER SEEKING A TAX BREAK, THAT'S NO QUESTION. BUT TAXPAYERS GET STUNG.

  January 3, 1996

• BURIED TREASURE

  THE HONEYMOON'S LONG OVER FOR EX-EPA CHIEF ANNE BURFORD AND HER LATE HUSBAND--BUT THE DIVORCE IS FOREVER.

  November 8, 1995

• ALEXIS STAYS PUT

  DAD WINS THE LATEST CUSTODY BATTLE FOR THE LITTLE GIRL WHOSE MOM WAS MURDERED IN NEW JERSEY.

  May 3, 1995

• JUDGING THE JUDGE

  THE STATE SUPREME COURT CONSIDERS A FIRST AMENDMENT CASE FROM CANON CITY.

  March 23, 1994

• Tom Martino's arrogance helps him win court case

  Tom Martino. Last week, self-proclaimed "Troubleshooter" Tom Martino, a KHOW personality who's also part of Channel 31's staff, came out on top of a ruling by a San Francisco-based federal appeals court. In the decision, a three-judge panel declined to overrule a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by an Oregon couple, who claimed that they lost $600,000 worth of business after Martino labeled them liars on his program, which was nationally syndicated at the time. Gordon Hinkle, Martino'

  April 29, 2009

• The Colorado Judicial Building reeks

  Views of the Colorado Judicial Building.​Good news for those of you who've always felt something stinks at the Colorado Judicial Building, where the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are housed: Today, even Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey agrees with you. She's closed the structure until further notice due to a sewer break in the basement. And that's her final decision. Read the Colorado Judicial Branch's release about the stench after the jump:

  August 17, 2009

• Could Clendenin case deal a blow to Colorado's pot biz?

  ​As noted in this week's cover story, "Pot of Gold," while Colorado's Amendment 20, which legalized marijuana in 2000, does not cover the subject of marijuana dispensaries, a flood of such operations are opening statewide under the auspices of a complicated legal framework that's evolved within the vague constraints of the amendment. While dispensary owners and their legal representation argue their ventures are protected by these legal structures, so far state officials have been wary to

  September 14, 2009

• Headed West owner on the saving of his hookah mural

  Headed West owner Mike Mahaney in front of his mural.​Just because the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Englewood in its effort to get rid of an Alice In Wonderland-inspired mural featuring a hookah-puffing insect doesn't mean Headed West owner Mike Mahaney, the man who commissioned it in the first place, can rest easy. "The city has 45 days to decide if they want to appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court," says Mahaney, who's run Headed West for thirteen years -- and unti

  October 5, 2009

• John Suthers buzzing on Stacy Clendenin medical-marijuana ruling

  "Why is everyone getting so worked up over little ol' me?"​In September, Joel Warner wrote a blog entitled "Could Clendenin Case Deal a Blow to Colorado's Pot Biz?" Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who's been trying to put the medical-marijuana genie back in the bottle, certainly hopes so. No wonder he's high on a ruling just handed down by the Colorado Court of Appeals, which affirmed the conviction of Stacy Clendenin, a self-described medical-marijuana caregiver. Read the decision

  October 29, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Medical marijuana about to take another hit

  ​The state isn't letting any grass grow under its feet -- and may be looking at prohibiting grass growing in your basement. The Colorado Board of Health has scheduled an Emergency Rulemaking Hearing for 10:30 a.m. today, to discuss -- and possibly eliminate -- its definition of "significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient." The state of emergency was created by last week's Court of Appeals interpretation of "primary caregiver," a definition left purposely vague in

  November 3, 2009

• Update: The Board of Health meeting on medical-marijuana

  Inside the Board of Health meeting.​Update, 11:44 a.m. It's all over, but not without a fight. The meeting began at 11:30 a.m., when board of health members began discussing a wording change, says Westword staffer Joel Warner, who was inside the hearing. Then they voted unanimously to do so. But when they announced that they wouldn't be taking public comment, the meeting quickly devolved into a shouting match between attorney and medical marijuana advocate Rob Corry and Glenn Schlabs, th

  November 3, 2009

• Everything you wanted to know about recent medical-marijuana developments -- but were afraid to ask

  "Does 'regulatory whiplash' count as a medical-marijuana ailment?"​State medical-marijuana rules have always been ridiculously vague and confusing, leading to the riotous growth of the local dispensary industry. Last week, the Colorado Court of Appeals weighed in on the matter, and this morning the Colorado Board of Health chimed in, too. Now, lo and behold, state medical-marijuana rules are still ridiculously vague and confusing. To help sort through the muddle, here's the CliffsNotes ve

  November 3, 2009

• Sean McAllister on Breckenridge's decriminalization of weed, the Board of Health's medical-marijuana action

  The Breckenridge marijuana vote put a smile on Sean McAllister's face.​Sean McAllister experienced a big up and an equally large down yesterday. As the head of Sensible Breckenridge, a marijuana advocacy organization, he was thrilled when residents of the ski town voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize pot in their community. But in his role as board chairman for the statewide group Sensible Colorado, he was distressed by the Colorado Board of Health's move to strike its previous definition

  November 4, 2009

• Tips for medical-marijuana dispensaries wanting to comply with new Board of Health ruling

  ​The Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in the Stacey Clendenin case, which stated that medical-marijuana caregivers must do more than simply supply the product in question, led the state's board of health to strike its caregiver definition -- a move that's caused confusion and panic among medical-marijuana purveyors. Into this maelstrom steps the Cannabis Therapy Institute, an advocacy group that's developed the Colorado Patients Services program -- a plan "designed to help caregivers prov

  November 5, 2009

• Brian Vicente on fight to void Board of Health's medical-marijuana ruling

  Medical-marijuana providers in the state of Colorado are in a state of confusion right now.​Yesterday afternoon, medical-marijuana advocates filed a petition in Denver District Court calling for a Tuesday ruling about the definition of "caregiver" by the state's Board of Health to be voided. Sensible Colorado executive director Brian Vicente, who joined attorneys such as Rob Corry and Sensible Breckenridge's Sean McAllister in presenting the document, believes the rushed manner in which th

  November 6, 2009

• Live blogging the Denver District Court pot hearing

  A Flickr photo.​Last Thursday, several of the state's prominent pot lawyers filed a motion to void a recent Colorado Board of Health decision to strike from its rules what it means to be a marijuana caregiver -- a move that upended the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. Starting at 8:30 a.m., Judge Larry Naves in Courtroom Six in Denver District Court will be considering the motion, hearing arguments from both sides -- the applicants and the Attorney General's Office. If the hearing tu

  November 10, 2009

• Brian Vicente on victory in hearing to void Board of Health's medical-marijuana ruling

  Brian Vicente helped make the Board of Health back down, at least temporarily -- and he'll get paid for doing so.​As reported in our live blog about a Denver District Court hearing this morning, Judge Larry Naves ruled in favor of medical-marijuana advocates, who argued against a controversial action by the state's Board of Health. The board's move echoed a Court of Appeals ruling that said a caregiver had to do more than simply provide marijuana to a patient -- but Naves nullified it, con

  November 10, 2009