Because the judge did not expressly state that the sentence was consecutive, the court judicial assistant did not include that term in the mittimus, the sentence order that went to the Department of Corrections. The court regrets this oversight and extends condolences to the families of Mr. Nathan Leon and Mr. Tom Clements.11th Judicial District of Colorado administrator Walter Blair • Discussing the situation around Evan Ebel, a man who shot and killed a prison chief last month. Turns out that, due to a clerical error, Ebel was let go four years early, after having four years added to his prison sentence due to a 2008 assault on a police guard. Instead, the sentence was misinterpreted as concurrent, leading to his release — and the slaying of two people. Ebel himself was killed March 21 in a shootout with police.
Defense attorneys representing Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes have offered to have him plead guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, 9NEWS has confirmed. This is only an offer from the defense team.
The two-page filing released on Wednesday goes on to say the prosecution has yet to accept the deal because “it may choose to pursue the death penalty.” The deal hinges completely on the prosecution’s willingness to take the death penalty off the table.
Should prosecutors choose to pursue the death penalty, there is still a widespread belief that Holmes’ defense team will attempt to use an insanity defense to guarantee their client life in a mental health facility instead. Judge William Sylvester has given the prosecution until April 1 to decide whether or not it will pursue the death penalty.
Despite high expectations that his defense team would enter a “not guilty by reason of insanity” plea, Judge William Sylvester was forced to enter a “not guilty” plea on behalf of James Holmes on charges related to last summer’s Century 17 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. While Holmes’ attorneys objected to the judge’s decision, prosecutors welcomed the plea, saying that Holmes and his team “had eight months to get to this point.” Prosecutors will announce on April 1 whether or not they intend to seek the death penalty, and the trial is currently scheduled to begin August 5, 2013. (Photo via RJ Sangosti/Denver Post) source
Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs said Tuesday that the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington’s laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.
The statement came on the same day a United Nations-based drug agency urged the U. S. government to challenge those laws, saying they violate international drug treaties.
The Department of Justice is expected to officially address the recently-passed marijuana legalization legislation in Washington and Colorado, and few expect the Obama Administration to react favorably to the new laws. That said, with the possibility that 25 of the 50 United States could have legalized medical marijuana by the end of 2014, it’s becoming increasingly clear that politicians are fighting a losing battle that is likely to start costing them votes (if it hasn’t already) in the years to come.
You can drink it. We did drink it, around the table, almost ritual-like…
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper at a Senate hearing on natural gas, saying he once drank fracking fluid with Halliburton representatives.
Hickenlooper says the liquid he sipped was made entirely of “food additives,” but fracking fluids can contain chemicals ranging from lead to formaldehyde.
(via officialssay)
What Mr. Hickenlooper isn’t saying is that he fracked it up afterwards.
We knew it was too good to be true. Why didn’t Tancredo realize when he made the bet, or when he agreed to uphold it several days ago, that smoking weed would set a bad example for his grandchildren? source
Decades before gay marriage started to see major popular breakthroughs, there was Richard Adams (left) and his partner, Anthony Sullivan. The duo made history in 1975, when they applied for—and received—a marriage license from a liberal-leaning county clerk in Boulder, Colo. (They were one of six couples on hand that day.) The licenses were invalidated by the state of Colorado, and Adams and Sullivan found themselves in a series of legal battles, as Sullivan, an Australian national, was denied a permanent resident petition. The letter they received from Immigration and Naturalization Service read as such: “You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two f———.” A series of appeals later failed for the couple, but after a stay in Europe, they returned to the U.S. and laid low for more than two decades. Adams, who died Monday at 65, lived to see same-sex marriage increasingly accepted legally and culturally. He is survived by Sullivan, his mother, and a number of siblings. (Los Angeles Times file photo)
Obama: Pot users should not be ‘top priority’ of federal law enforcement
President Barack Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a “top priority” of federal law enforcement officials prosecuting the war on drugs.
“We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said of pot users in Colorado and Washington during an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters.
“It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it’s legal,” he said, invoking the same approach taken toward users of medicinal marijuana in 18 states where it’s legal.
The problem with this quote: Not that he said it, but that the last time he made a similar claim, it wasn’t followed by the federal agencies that actually enact the policy — something which led Dilbert creator Scott Adams to claim he wouldn’t vote for the president. Check back in two years to see how he’s doing on this issue.
Columbine shooter’s mom: I prayed for his suicide
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The mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold says in a new book that she prayed for him to commit suicide when she was told he was a suspect during the shooting spree at a Colorado school that killed 13 people.
“And so while every other mother in Littleton was praying that her child was safe, I had to pray that mine would die before he hurt anyone else.” Not sure hot to feel about this. Obviously a tough situation, but it sounds like a crazy headline.
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We have a natural fit with Colorado. I embrace the notion of being a spoiler. The two-party system is outdated. Politics right now is very status quo. It’s really like a non-choice.Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson • Discussing the role he could play in Colorado, where the race is very tight and the state’s marijuana ballot initiative plays to his base’s strengths. He stands a chance to make an impact in the state than most for a few reasons: Libertarians tend to do better in western states, the party was founded in Colorado, and he’s perhaps the best-known candidate on the ballot who supports legalization — which is a hot topic in the state. Depending on how he does, he could take votes away from either Obama or Romney. Spoiler, indeed.
A new study from the Instituto Mexicano Para La Competitividad A.C. (Mexican Institute for Competitiveness) reveals potentially devastating consequences for a number of Mexican drug cartels should marijuana be legalized in a handful of the United States. The Mexican think thank believes the legalization measures on the ballot in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington could cut combined cartel profits by as much as 22 to 30 percent, and could severely cripple the infamous Sinaloa Cartel that operates in Western Mexico. source
New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will rally alongside Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and vice-presidental candidate Paul Ryan in Colorado at the Red Rocks Amphitheater tonight.
Susanna Martinez is one of Mitt Romney’s stronger surrogates, we think — her speech at the RNC in Tampa last month was one of the more relatable to independent voters that the GOP brought out. We reckon she’ll do more meaningful good to his ticket than, say, this new Romney endorsement, certainly.
Trigger warning on this you guys: it’s a story about a victim of a vicious sexual assault whose awesome brother is trying to raise $65,000 to help cover her surgery.
“I didn’t want this to be just a story of the tragedy that happened. Lydia was really, really torn up from this. Her injuries were so bad. I thought, Lydia’s still kickin, she’s been through a lot. She hung in there.”
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