January 25, 2015 Denver, Colorado Denver County judges are knowingly violating state laws in setting bond in misdemeanor cases and wrongfully denying defendants’ requests to argue for lower bail, according to claims against the county. The Colorado public defender’s office filed three lawsuits against Denver County Courts in...
January 19, 2015 New York, New York Had their final date taken them to different seats, at another cinema, on some other warm summer night, Jansen Young and Jon Blunk might be happily celebrating Blunk’s 29th birthday in Aurora, Colorado, on Tuesday. Instead, Young alone must face the...
That is what many Dutch people asked me as I visited the Netherlands this month, including my taxi driver to the Schniphol Airport. Although I didn’t know exactly what the "goings on" he was referring to were, I said a lot is going on in America. When...
“I am angry that we live in a world where two disabled boys can have their lives stolen from them, where cops can lie and intimidate with impunity, where innocent people can be condemned to die and where injustice is so difficult to bring to...
My criminal law practice isn’t dwindling when it comes to representing individuals who have mental health and developmental disabilities. And, the same goes for my criminal defense colleagues who frequently ask where they can get their clients with mental health disabilities help. I am consistently...