Subject: Colorado Court of Appeals

• Smoked

  August 3, 2006

• More Messages: The Latest Tower Tale

  May 5, 2006

• Judge Kuenhold's Harmless Errors

  September 7, 2007

• Post Editorial Attacks Bill Inspired By Its Own Pulitzer Finalist

  April 2, 2008

• Ex-owner Edgar Kaiser’s long, long goodbye to the Denver Broncos

  October 3, 2008

• The week ahead: From the election to the economy, it's scary

  October 27, 2008

• Follow That Story

  December 20, 2001

• Follow That Story

  January 23, 2003

• A pro pulls a con game in Jefferson County

  October 16, 2008

• Won't You Please Come From Chicago?

  Protesters stay in tune for the DNC.

  June 19, 2008

• Kink in the System

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

  June 7, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of 4/19/2007

  April 19, 2007

• Legally Binding

  The Enclave gave Commerce City quite a beating in court.

  April 19, 2007

• No Pain, No Gain

  The Enclave has Commerce City fit to be tied.

  April 12, 2007

• When Mistakes Don't Matter

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

  February 22, 2007

• Parade of Groans

  A luxury homebuilder's dispute with customers results in a felony charge.

  July 6, 2006

• Community Watch

  Excel Academy charter school wants a home, but neighbors say not on their range.

  September 4, 2003

• The High Cost of Free Speech

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

  July 31, 2003

• Off Limits

  Stop-and-gonad traffic

  July 24, 2003

• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

  Will Terry Baker survive? Fill in the blanks.

  January 16, 2003

• Juris Prudence

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

  August 17, 2000

• Slow Burn

  Court hearings abound in the Ramsey case -- except one for the murderer.

  December 9, 1999

• Did the Earth Move for You, Too?

  Homeowners, builders and legislators are heaving over the Front Range's swelling soils problem.

  January 21, 1999

• Off Limits

  September 24, 1998

• Justice Delayed

  With the right defendant pulling the strings, Colorado's domestic-violence system can be tied into knots. A victim's story.

  June 18, 1998

• Game of the Century

  The high-stakes real estate maneuvering behind Vail's newest expansion dreams.

  March 26, 1998

• Letty Wins

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

  February 12, 1998

• Changing of the Guard

  After eighteen months as a ward of the court, Letty Milstein will finally get her day in court.

  December 18, 1997

• Letters

  July 3, 1997

• 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

• THE OLD BALL & CHAIN

  January 10, 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

• OFF THE RECORD

  WHOSE DIVORCE RECORDS ARE SEALED? READ ALL ABOUT IT.

  October 12, 1994

• Coroner's opponent charges "malicious, outrageous conduct"

  Adams County Coroner James Hibbard. There's not much respect and affection to be found between former colleagues David Shaklee and Jim Hibbard. The controversial Adams County coroner whose strained dealings with other agencies and his own staff is the subject of this week's cover story, "The Body Shop," Hibbard used to work for the county sheriff's office -- where, at one point, he supervised Shaklee, now a detective there. Shaklee ran as a Republican candidate for coroner in 2002 and 2006, los

  July 1, 2009

• DA Carol Chambers: Avoiding the inevitable

  Carol Chambers. As Westword's Alan Prendergast has reported in a series of blogs, Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. has ordered district attorney Carol Chambers to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of Julie Stene, who says she was sexually assaulted after a 2000 high school graduation party by two men, one of whom went on to play football at the University of Colorado, where he came under scrutiny as part of the sex scandal that erupted there two years later. Samour had to

  July 15, 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

• Will it be Hoppy Days for Oktoberfest?

  September 17, 2009

• Court case saves Headed West hookah mural

  The mural in question.​ Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland could hardly be more mainstream. Children of all ages have read it for decade upon decade, Disney made an animated version during the Truman administration, and there'll likely be another burst of interest in the material when director Tim Burton's take on the tale, co-starring Johnny Depp, hits theaters next March. But when Headed West, a shop at 4811 S. Broadway specializing in a certain type of specialty merchandise, covered on

  October 2, 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

• Sensible Colorado tries to draw a crowd to Board of Health's medical-marijuana hearing

  ​As Patricia Calhoun points out in this morning's Wake-Up Call, the Colorado Board of Health is holding an "Emergency Rulemaking Hearing" at 10:30 a.m. this morning; it takes place in Building A at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment headquarters, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South. The spur: A Colorado Court of Appeals judgment last week that went against Stacey Clendenin, whose 44 pot plants seized in a 2006 bust were intended to supply medical-marijuana patients, some of

  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

• 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

• Senator Al White's proposal to put the state in charge of growing and distributing medical marijuana

  Senator Al White wants state and federal marijuana laws to peacefully co-exist. Good luck.​A Colorado Court of Appeals decision regarding medical marijuana -- as well as a subsequent Board of Health move to strike its definition of caregiver -- has led to a motion filed by pro-marijuana advocates, not to mention plenty of confusion over legal issues. Into this maelstrom steps Senator Al White, a Republican from Hayden, who's floating the idea of the state taking over the growing and distri

  November 9, 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

• Medical-marijuana businesses should police themselves, says advocate Rob Corry

  Rob Corry thinks a trade association would do a better job of keeping dispensaries in line that the government.​Attorney Rob Corry has been on a roll of late, having won over Judge Larry Naves in a recent Denver District Court proceeding that voided a Board of Health ruling about the definition of a medical-marijuana caregiver -- a response to a Colorado Court of Appeals decision in the case of Stacey Clendenin that threw the blooming medical-marijuana industry into a tizzy. Now, Corry's

  November 13, 2009

• Senator Chris Romer's medical-marijuana ideas put many dispensaries -- and younger patients -- in the crosshairs

  Senator Chris Romer's gone to pot as an issue -- and medical-marijuana boosters don't like all his ideas.​Earlier today, we told you about a Boulder Daily Camera article in which Senator Chris Romer predicted that half the dispensaries in the state would go out of business if some of the ideas he has for legislation become law next year -- speculation that fired up the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute. In a subsequent conversation, Romer laid out more details, and while he made it

  November 16, 2009

• Attorney General John Suthers has to admit: Medical marijuana can be taxed

  "When I said, 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it,' I didn't mean it like that!"​Attorney General John Suthers has been the high-ranking state official most likely to imply that the sky is falling in relation to medical marijuana. No wonder he cheered a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in the Stacy Clendenin case that aimed to tighten up the description of caregiver -- one that was tossed in Denver District Court when the Board of Health tried to adopt it too hurriedly. Betcha it pained h

  November 17, 2009