Colorado Jury Instructions for Criminal Cases
Each year the Colorado Supreme Court’s Model Criminal Jury Instructions Committee issues an updated instruction…
legal/judicial
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado Attorney General
A.J. Sampson, Colorado’s first state Attorney General. The Attorney General of Colorado is an elected…
Colorado Judicial Learning Center
The State of Colorado’s judicial branch offers a fun, unique way for all ages to…
Time Machine Tuesday: Admission to the Bar, 1924
This month, as hundreds of recent law school grads prepare to take their bar exams,…
Supreme Court Justice – Mandatory Retirement Age
Last week, former Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, Michael Bender, reached the mandatory retirement age for…
Ralph Carr Judicial Center
The Ralph Carr Judicial Center at 2 E. 14th Ave. in Denver is officially open, with…
Supreme Court Justices
This past week saw both the appointment of a new Colorado Supreme Court Justice, Brian…
Colorado Water Law
Water law is a major issue in Colorado, and our library owns a number of…
Capital Punishment in Colorado
Several state websites discuss capital punishment procedures in Colorado. The Dept. of Corrections has the…
Term Limits and Retention of Judges
This November one of the ballot issues will be Amendment 40, concerning term limits for…
Common Law Marriage
June is the month for weddings. Some couples, however, choose to skip the formalities and…
The Court of Last Resort
The Colorado Supreme Court is indeed the state’s court of last resort and its decisions…