Subject: Law

• The Last Six to Face Life for Juvenile Crimes

  September 19, 2007

• Documents Outline DA Mitch Morrissey’s Complaints Against Denver Post Pulitzer Candidate

  April 2, 2008

• Wayne Laugesen Vs. Richard Baker: The Debate

  June 17, 2008

• Murderers' Row

  Until two years ago, Colorado juries weighed whether men deserved to die. Now judges decide their fate.

  June 7, 2001

• Right-to-work lightning rod Ryan Frazier cleared of wrongdoing for political contributions

  Up-and-coming Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier put his political career on the line by backing Amendment 47, the hugely controversial right-to-work ballot measure that failed in the polls last month. Among other political attacks, the 31-year-old Republican was the subject of an ominous television commercial questioning campaign contributions he received from Carollo Engineers the same day that he and other council members voted to award the engineering company a lucrative city contract. Now

  December 12, 2008

• Locked Up for Life

  March 23, 2000

• The Colorado Civil Rights Division has a double standard for ladies' nights -- and newspapers

  March 5, 2009

• Not a Pretty Picture

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

  July 9, 1998

• Odor in the Court

  A police sting on a perfume dealer nets a small-time amount of goods--plus two vehicles. The dealer says the whole thing stinks.

  August 27, 1998

• The Good, The Bad & The Mad

  What happens to the mentally ill in the justice system is just crazy.

  May 29, 2008

• Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State

  How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.

  February 28, 2008

• Drink Up, Ladies!

  Steve Horner's crusade to end ladies' nights falls flat.

  August 9, 2007

• Who's Sorry Now?

  A look at the revolving door of term limits.

  April 26, 2007

• Ladies' Plight

  Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

  February 15, 2007

• The Punisher

  Censured but defiant, Carol Chambers goes after habitual criminals -- and cops, judges and lawyers -- like no other district attorney. But at what cost?

  February 8, 2007

• Sis Boom Bah

  In one afternoon, this Montbello student went from cheerleading to lockup.

  March 17, 2005

• Anatomy of a Cover-up

  Days after the Columbine shootings, Jeffco officials were already lying about what they knew. What about now?

  September 30, 2004

• Anatomy of a Cover-up

  Days after the Columbine shootings, Jeffco officials were already lying about what they knew. What about now?

  September 23, 2004

• Law and Order

  Denver's DA candidates take a seat in the docket.

  July 29, 2004

• Scratching the Bitch

  Joseph Paiva was born defective, but prosecutors stamped him a habitual criminal.

  November 13, 2003

• Bad Boys

  Denver's Juvenile Court just turned one hundred. The next years could be rough.

  October 2, 2003

• Divorced From Reality

  A Colorado Supreme Court commission says this state's justice system could do more to help families -- starting with the parents.

  July 11, 2002

• The Shifting Drug War

  The pendulum is swinging back from stiff mandatory sentences for drug offenses.

  November 22, 2001

• Disorder in the Court

  Judge John Kane has seen too many casualties in the War on Drugs. Now he demands a government retreat.

  November 22, 2001

• Dead Reckoning

  Donta Page's sentence revives Colorado's death-penalty debate -- but brings no closure. The Conclusion of "Penalty Zone."

  June 28, 2001

• Justice, Boulder Style

  The county will soon have its first new DA in 28 years. But in order for justice to be done, former cop Steve Thomas thinks the office needs a complete overhaul.

  October 19, 2000

• Unnecessary Roughness

  A Denver Bronco's domestic-violence case gets complicated.

  June 1, 2000

• Sight Unseen

  Carole Abbott was an expert witness in child sex-abuse cases. What she witnessed at home was a different matter.

  March 16, 2000

• Unlawful Entry

  The high price of Denver's drug war: lies, bad busts, cops in harm's way -— and the death of an innocent man.

  February 24, 2000

• Take the Money and Run

  It took sixteen years and international extradition, but the Colorado Attorney General’s Office finally got its man.

  February 3, 2000

• I'm Sorry, Really I Am

  Communities rely on old techniques for a new style of justice.

  July 15, 1999

• The Spin Crowd

  October 1, 1998

• Say It Loud

  Anne Sulton missed out on the civil-rights movement of the Sixties. Now she's making up for it.

  May 7, 1998

• A Closet Full of Suits

  When Paula Larsen feels wronged, she sues--and she never lets go.

  August 28, 1997

• Mutual Contempt

  A defense attorney accused of being disrespectful to a judge is off the hook--for now.

  June 12, 1997

• A Fight to the Death

  Frank Rodriguez was sentenced to die twelve years ago. Are we there yet?

  March 6, 1997

• Better Shred Than Read

  February 20, 1997

• Beyond Contempt

  A judge and a prosecutor in Gilpin County are after a new breed of criminals: jurors and defense attorneys.

  January 23, 1997

• Black Marks

  The Denver Police Department acts like it has something to hide about its clash with students at Thomas Jefferson High School. It does.

  December 19, 1996

• 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

• Jack's Back

  The state had an opportunity to lock up rapist and career criminal Jack Ainsworth for good. Now it's too late.

  July 11, 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

• WAR OF THE WORDS

  HOW AN EAGER DA TRANSFORMED A NEIGHBORHOOD SPAT INTO A HEADLINE-GRABBING HATE CRIME.THE HATING GAME WHEN THE ARONSONS TALKED, THE JEFFCO DA LISTENED. BIG MISTAKE.

  August 9, 1995

• Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?

  May 21, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Civil Rights on the road

  ​ The Colorado Civil Rights Commission took its show on the road last night, hosting an evening forum at the Blair-Caldwell Library. And if the conversation didn't seem to go exactly where Colorado Civil Rights Division director Steve Chavez wanted it to go -- after an active initial discussion of racial profiling, playing off the current Gatesgate, no one in this largely African-American group wanted to talk about whether women, particularly pregnant woman, were suffering increased discri

  July 28, 2009

• Steve Horner: A name that drives people to drink

  On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in the crowd who's had recent dealings with the Colorado Civil Rights Division. That's because Steve Horner, the anti-ladies' night crusader, has lodged dozens of complaints with the division, claiming that assorted ladies' ni

  July 28, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Civil rights, better late than never

  ​"You all wasted our time," proclaimed community activist Alvertis Simmons at a public forum held July 27 by the Colorado Division of Civil Rights. "This was not a waste of your time," replied Rico Munn, the cool-headed director of the Department of Regulatory Affairs, which includes the Division of Civil Rights. "We're trying to put together a report that has not been done in a decade." A decade?

  August 5, 2009

• Steve Horner fights for his right to be wrong.

  August 6, 2009

• Drink up, Denver! The Division of Civil Rights has confirmed your right to enjoy ladies' night

  September 17, 2009