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Understanding Protective Orders
Below is a helpful link that outlines protective orders in Colorado. A protective order is also known as a protection order, a restraining order, a civil protection order, an injunction, or a no contact order. If you need help, please call 303.440.4444 http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/0/subID/274/Understand-Protective-Orders
Protective Orders & Restraining Orders in Colorado
Restraining orders and protective orders may be secured immediately through the courts. These emergency orders are designed to protect victims or potential victims from further harm and imminent danger. The process involves filing a civil complaint for a temporary protective order and then appearing, usually the same day, in open court. In court, the party seeking protection (the petitioner) must present […]
Temporary Civil Restraining Orders/Permanent Civil Restraining Orders
Our firm secures permanent restraining orders for our clients, and we also defend our clients from permanent restraining orders. These actions go very quickly. A trial to decide whether the Court will grant or deny a permanent retraining order often occurs within days of the when the case is filed. Immediate legal action is necessary […]
We still have a juvenile incarceration problem | TheHill
This article, written by Richard Ross, was published by The Hill on September 13, 2014. Below is a small excerpt from the piece which details some of the problems with juvenile incarceration in the United States. “There is no shortage of children behind bars in the United States. Each night, more than 60,000 of our children […]
People v. Ruch; The Right to Remain Silent
People v. Ruch, 2013 COA 96, 10CA2436 is a very useful case especially for defendants who have been convicted at trial, are ordered to sex offender treatment, and have an appeal pending. Ruch adopts arguments made in People v. Guatney, 214 P.3d 1049 (Colo. 2009) that, absent a grant of use immunity, the state may […]
Colorado Sex Offender Sentences Still Stringent Despite Failure of Jessica’s Law
Late February the Denver Post ran the article Political accusations fly after Colorado’s Jessica’s Law dies dissecting the hoopla that has been stirred up around Colorado’s denial of Jessica’s Law. Read the full article here. House Bill 1149, or Jessica’s Law, would require a 25 year minimum sentence on an offender who commits sexual assault against […]