Harvey Steinberg

Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace gets fifteen years for prostituion ring run through strip clubs

Back in May 2011, we told about accused procurer Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace, who was arrested along with four women who allegedly helped him run a prostitution ring through high-profile Denver strip clubs. He's now been convicted on a pair of charges that netted him a fifteen-year sentence in the Big ... More >>

Elvis Dumervil: No charges for Bronco in alleged armed road rage incident

Last month, Denver Broncos star defender Elvis Dumervil was arrested in Miami after what was portrayed as an armed road-rage incident. Dumervil responded by retaining the legal services of Harvey Steinberg, an attorney with a seemingly magic touch when it comes to getting pro footballers out of trou ... More >>

Elvis Dumervil's Miami arrest: Road rage, peer pressure, gun displays?

Update: In our original coverage of Broncos star Elvis Dumervil's weekend arrest in Miami, we highlighted a local blogger's speculation that the bust could have been "a black thing." But the just-released police report suggests trouble may have begun with Dumervil's pal, who allegedly had a road rag ... More >>

Top ten tweets about D.J. Williams sharing Broncos playbook photo

Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams's inexplicable decision to tweet a photo from the squad's playbook earned him slaps o' plenty from Twitter Nation. See the ten most memorable reactions below. Still, there's irony in this censure -- because the response was considerably larger than the ones involvin ... More >>

Perrish Cox lawsuit: Victim got date-rate drugs before non-consensual sex with ex-Bronco?

Last summer, then-Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox was accused of impregnating his rape victim. In March, he was found not guilty of the charge. But while he had been cut by the Broncos beforehand, the current-San Francisco 49er isn't done with Colorado. Cox's alleged victim has filed a Jane D ... More >>

Peyton Manning: Here are the best 18 things you need to know about Denver

Number 18, you're not in Indiana anymore. You may be Denver's most famous newcomer, but you're a newcomer, nonetheless -- and there are certain things that every newcomer needs to know. Over the last 28 years, the Best of Denver has celebrated what makes this city special -- and in advance of the Be ... More >>

Brandon Marshall traded after face-punch allegation, Perrish Cox signs with 49ers

It's a busy time on the "Former Broncos who have spent a lot of time in court" beat. Perrish Cox, fresh from being acquitted of a sex crime, has landed a two-year contract with the 49ers, while Brandon Marshall was traded by Miami to Chicago in what some initially theorized was an attempt by the Dol ... More >>

Perrish Cox found not guilty of sexual assault against woman he allegedly impregnated

Update by Michael Roberts: Many observers felt confident that former Denver Broncos defender Perrish Cox would be found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last year. After all, DNA evidence showed that he had impregnated her. But moments ago, a jury acquitted Cox of the charges -- a ... More >>

Amelia Nicol on dropping of murder, incendiary device charges -- and Occupy Denver

Amelia Nicol.​Amelia Nicol is not afraid to go back to jail. "I'm standing up in solidarity with the people of Occupy Denver," she says. "But I'm using different tastics than before. There's no need for me to return to jail -- not for Occupy Denver."

Amelia Nicol: Anarchist pleads not guilty to possessing incendiary device -- a firecracker

Amelia Nicol.​Wearing a denim dress and an ankle bracelet, her Mohawk combed down and decorated with a blue bandanna, Amelia Nicol looked very different yesterday morning than she had three weeks earlier, when she appeared in Denver County Court on June 9 in shackles and an orange jumpsuit, di ... More >>

An anarchist charged with attempted murder sees her case blow up in court

"I was running down an alley, and then I heard them yell behind me, 'Mohawk, Mohawk!' There was a car parked at the end of the alley, and I was like, 'Oh, fuck.'"

Germaine Wallace, aka Jell-O: Alleged pimp busted for hooker ring run through strip clubs

Big pics below.​Cops say Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace was livin' large, sharing a $1.3 million mansion with a bevy of beautiful babes and exotic animals like an African wild cat named Goldie. And how did he finance this lifestyle? Allegedly by running a prostitution ring through high-profile Denv ... More >>

Raped and extorted by a prison gang, Scott Howard was called a "drama queen" by corrections officials

Louis Hampers: Indicted Children's doctor back in court on Friday, back in Colorado soon

Louis Hampers.​ Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children's Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 fake prescriptions dating back to 2007 and continuing through April, will return to court Friday in Virginia, where he was arrested yesterday. According to Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Atto ... More >>

Sex, lies and e-mail: The lawsuit against Dr. Louis Hampers continues

Louis Hampers.​9News investigative reporter Deborah Sherman's relationship with Children's Hospital ER doc Louis Hampers started on a swinger's website and ended in court, where Sherman won a restraining order against him. Hampers' increasingly creepy behavior toward Sherman (and another woma ... More >>

When this physician gets the fever, it's the women he dates who can't shake the bug

Operation Cock Block tries to protect women's hearts and pocketbooks from this crooked Casanova

Brandon Marshall: Happy camper again?

Brandon Marshall's 2009 team mug shot -- err, photo.​Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall narrowly avoided the prospect of having his jerseys referred to as wifebeaters, or something close to that, due to his acquittal on battery charges in Atlanta on Friday. Afterward, the injury that had kept h ... More >>

Prediction: Brandon Marshall will skate in battery trial

Brandon Marshall at one of his many booking sessions.​A misdemeanor battery charge against Brandon Marshall is being heard at what was advertised as a one-day trial in Atlanta -- but that prediction proved inaccurate. The proceeding moves into a second day today, with the judge dismissing the ... More >>

Dude, where's my lawyer? Francis "lawyer rat" Pignatelli officially banned from Colorado courts

If there was just one tenet of belief among the sneaky ranks of big-time criminal defense attorneys, it would be this: Thou shall not squeal on a client. Francis Pignatelli was a prominent defense attorney in Ohio until 2005, when federal agents learned that he had been helping clients launder d ... More >>

Words of wisdom from Jack A. Weil

Wake-Up Call: Sometimes, there is no justice

You would have thought that getting voters to approve a bond measure to build a new jail -- smack in the heart of the artsy Golden Triangle, at the edge of the revived Civic Center -- would have been the challenging task. But that was a breeze compared to coming up with a name for Denver's new j ... More >>

Broncos' go-to lawyer also reps gangster linked to Darrent Williams murder

The Travis Henry Formula to Beating a Drug Suspension

Doc Phil's Day in Court

The Blame Game

After Melo's pal takes the pot rap, others cop to jocks' past sins.

The Message

Vanishing Act

From Locusts to Limos

By Alan Prendergast

The rise of the Tea Party

An Ugly Picture

The Colorado Supreme Court gets involved in a child-pornography case.

Follow That Story

Faith healer Oscar Paniagua jumps bail.

The Truth Hurts

His former clients have a message for Oscar Paniagua: They'll see him in court -- they hope.

Personal Foul

Little Boy Lost

Accused murderer Renee Polreis pulls out all the stops in a pre-trial hearing.

Psychological Warfare

The defense loses a key battle over attachment disorder for the upcoming Polreis toddler-death trial.

Trial by Ire

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

Terrible Two

Renee Polreis and her adopted son had a miserable life together--until someone put an end to it.