Category: Domestic Violence

House Committee Kills Juvenile Parole Bill

Apr 11
2011

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Categories: Criminal Defense | Domestic Violence | Violent Crimes

Recently, the State House Committee voted down a bill that would reverse the life sentences of 48 murders in Colorado.  Each of these individuals was a juvenile at the time they committed the offense for which they are incarcerated.  Between 1992 and 2006, Colorado applied life without parole to certain juvenile offenders.  This was changed in 2006.  However, for those juveniles sentenced between 1992 and 2006, parole is not possible

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Charged with Domestic Violence? An Overview of Colorado Domestic Violence Law

Apr 8
2011

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Categories: Domestic Violence | Felonies

Domestic Violence is not necessarily “violent”.

“Domestic violence” is an act or threatened act of violence upon a person with whom you have been involved in an “intimate relationship.” It also includes crimes against a partner’s property, when used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge.

 

There does not have to be a current boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife relationship for there to be “domestic violence”.

The key

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