Author: Colleen Slevin
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A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app
A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict
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Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders
A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020
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Family of man who died after being tackled by mental crisis team sues paramedic, police officer
Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a “psychotic breakdown” instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family
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[PRINT] Shooter who killed 5 people at Colorado LGBTQ+ club intends to plead guilty to federal hate crimes (copy)
DENVER • The shooter who killed five people and endangered the lives of over 40 at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs plans to plead guilty to new federal charges for hate crimes and firearm violations under an agreement that would allow the defendant to avoid the death penalty, according to court documents made public…
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Shooter who killed 5 people at Colorado LGBTQ+ club intends to plead guilty to federal hate crimes
DENVER • The shooter who killed five people and endangered the lives of over 40 others at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs plans to plead guilty to new federal charges for hate crimes and firearm violations under an agreement that would allow the defendant to avoid the death penalty, according to court documents made…
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Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear won’t be forcibly medicated for now
DENVER — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people in 2015 at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic because it offered abortion services will not be forcibly medicated as he appeals a federal judge’s order allowing the involuntary treatment. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that involuntary medication was the…
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Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear can be forcibly medicated, judge says
DENVER — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services can be forcibly medicated to try to make him competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday. The prosecution of Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., 64, has stalled because he…
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Judge throws out Tina Peters’ recount challenge in Colorado
A judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a primary election recount lost by a Colorado county clerk who alleged “extensive malfeasance” during the June primary, in which she failed to become her party’s nominee for the state’s top election office. Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters filed a lawsuit objecting to the methods used…
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City marks anniversary of Elijah McClain’s death
In the year since Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from a store, the number of people calling for justice to be done in his case has grown to millions of people around the world. Like his family and activists who have been protesting over the…
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U.S. wants to return codebreaker’s seized items to U.K. school
DENVER • A U.S. woman who said she was visiting England to do a study of the late World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing walked into the prestigious boys’ boarding school he attended and asked to see a collection of his memorabilia. She was given a wooden box with items that once…