Ida Gregory Shatters one Glass Ceiling
Ida Gregory paved the way for women in justice and law with her appointment to associate judge of Denver’s Juvenile Court in 1903. Gregory...
Cruel and Unusual?
After Jesus Gutierrez was convicted of felony menacing and unlawful use of an incendiary device in the commission of a felony, he was adjudicated...
Gregory Scott’s Historic Time on the Bench
Gregory Scott in 1993 became not only the first Black man to hold one of the highest judicial positions in the state but also...
1988 Bank Robbery Ends in Televised Chase and Deaths
Years before O.J. Simpson’s famed 1994 car chase, a Colorado police pursuit was one of the first ever recorded police chases. Phillip Hutchinson’s 1988...
Four Decades Later
Before Colorado’s founding, a plot of land in the San Luis Valley was granted in 1844 to two Mexican nationals as part of the...
Colorado’s FBI Informant-Turned Serial Killer
The Federal Bureau of Investigation sometimes recruits former convicts to be informants for the agency, but it’s likely that few informants have left the...
Express Malice
First-degree murder is “the deliberate and premeditated killing of a human being with express malice,” according to determinations made in Watkins v. People in...
The Dramatic Tale of Charles Ginsberg
Charles Ginsberg, a prominent Denver attorney at the turn of the century, may be best known for his efforts to reduce the Ku Klux...
A Spark in Darkness
Netflix on Nov. 11 launched its new series “The Liberator,” which retells the story of the 2012 Alex Kershaw book of the same title....
Navigating Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity
The news media often covers sensationalized cases in-volving serial killers, but rarely does that coverage backfire for prosecutors. Colorado Attorney General John Moore and...