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OADC Weekly Case Law Update

by Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel

This weekly podcast is intended for criminal defense teams and covers relevant case law updates, interesting tidbits, and information about the Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel in Denver, Colorado.

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  1. Episode 435 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/12/2025 Cases: People v. Berumen, 2025COA93 (December 11, 2025); Trial court properly denied choice of evils instruction, and majority upholds 2022 reasonable doubt instruction over Judge Berger's dissent arguing "a real possibility" language…

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  2. Episode 434 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/5/2025 Cases: People v. Romero, 2025COA91 (November 26, 2025); COA holds that a hatchet qualifies as a "knife" under the 2022 menacing statute, reasoning that anything with a handle and blade designed for cutting meets the definition, thus...

  3. Episode 433 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 11/21/2025 Cases: People v. Montoya, 2025COA89 (November 19, 2025); the trial court violated Montoya's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial by excluding all spectators from physically attending proceedings. Also, the evidence was sufficient to...

  4. Episode 432 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 11/7/2025 and 11/14/2025 Cases: UNPUBLISHED People v. Sandoval, 22CA0824 (October 30, 2025); the trial court violated Sandoval's right to a public trial by excluding all observers from voir dire to accommodate an extended jury panel. UNPUBLISHED...

  5. Episode 431 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 10/17/2025 and 10/24/2025 Cases: People in Interest of S.G.H., 2025 CO 59 (October 13, 2025); The Supreme Court held that AI-generated deepfake images depicting minors were not "sexually exploitative material" under the statute in effect at the…

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  6. Episode 430 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 10/3/2025 and 10/10/2025 Cases: People v. Gregg, 2025 CO 57 (September 29, 2025); Colorado's former habitual criminal sentencing statute is not facially unconstitutional under Erlinger because a jury can adjudicate habitual counts before a judge...

  7. Episode 429 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 9/19/2025 and 9/26/2025 Cases: UNPUBLISHED People v. Sanders, Jr., 23CA0687 (September 11, 2025); Pro se petition alleging ineffective assistance of counsel for the failure to consult with a DNA expert was not wholly unfounded, and he is entitled…

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  8. Episode 428 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 9/12/2025 Cases: People v. Hollis, 2025 CO 54 (Sept. 8, 2025); The government can't seek reimbursement for unrecovered buy money as restitution under § 18-1.3-602(3)(a) and (b). People v. Hudson, 2025 CO 52 (Sept. 8, 2025); A person can be guilty…

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  9. Episode 427 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 8/29/2025 & 9/5/2025 Cases: In re. People v. Bell, 25SA254; the Supreme Court issued an order to show cause why the postconviction court did not err in finding that it lacked authority to order the prosecution to provide trial discovery to the...

  10. Episode 426 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 8/22/2025 Cases: UNPUBLISHED People v. Mares, 23CA1003 (August 21, 2025) The trial court violated Mares statutory right to a speedy trial by setting his trial beyond the 6 month deadline. The trial court mistakenly relied on the COVID exception to...

  11. Episode 425 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 8/15/2025 Cases: UNPUBLISHED People v. McRae, 23CA0012 (August 14, 2025); The district court erred by denying McCrae's motion to suppress the drugs seized from the backpack in his car because the officers unconstitutionally prolonged the stop by...

  12. Episode 424 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 8/8/2025 Cases: UNPUBLISHED People v. Amoako-Asiamah, 22CA0825 (August 7, 2025); When viewed alongside the other irregularities during the trial, the division could not conclude that Amoako-Asiamah received a fundamentally fair trial, and thus due...

  13. Episode 423 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 8/1/2025 Cases: Terra Mgmt. Grp., LLC v. Keaten, 2025 CO 40, __ P.3d __, 2025 WL 1802067 (June 23, 2025); In a civil action, the Court declares that a trial court may sanction a party for the destruction of relevant evidence if the party knew or...

  14. Episode 422 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 7/25/2025 Cases: People v. Brennan, 2025COA68 (July 24, 2025); A Colorado court cannot exercise jurisdiction over a defendant for unauthorized use and identity theft based on the defendant's solicitation, from a state other than Colorado, of...

  15. Episode 421 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 7/18/2025 Cases: People v. Valles, 2025COA67 (July 17, 2025); The trial court erred by conducting a virtual sentencing hearing without first providing the requisite advisements. However, reversal was not required because sentencing counsel did not...

  16. Episode 420 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 7/11/2025 Cases: Ion Media v. West, 24CA1416 (July 10, 2025); Release of body worn camera recordings under CRS 24-31-902(2). People v. Manzanres, 2025COA62 (July 3, 2025); Trial court must make factual findings about how a mandatory protection…

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  17. Episode 419 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    Cases: People v. Mills, 2025 CO 47 (June 30, 2025); When police seize a citizen's personal property, the police can take as much time as is "reasonable" to obtain the search warrant, even if that amount of time was not "necessary." People in Interest of Kay W., 2025 CO 48 (June 30, 2025); If the...

  18. Episode 418 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 6/27/2025 Cases and Keywords: People v. Gallegos, 2025 CO 41 (June 23, 2025); The plain language of the felony murder affirmative defense statute does not require that a defendant admit that they committed the predicate offense. People v....

  19. Summer Announcement

    We are taking a few weeks off. We'll see you back here on July 31st (or so!) Thanks! Sarah and Shawndell

  20. Episode 417 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 6/20/2025 Cases and Keywords: UNPUBLISHED People v. Henderson, 22CA1121 (June 18, 2025) Where store employees stop a person from successfully taking property in a shoplifting by force scenario, there is insufficient evidence to affirm an…

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  21. Episode 416 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 6/13/2025 Cases and Keywords: Rivers v. Guerrero, no. 23-1345 (June 12, 2025) A second postconviction petition filed after the district court rules on the first petition is a second or successive federal habeas petition under AEDPA even though the...

  22. Episode 415 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 6/6/2025 Cases and Keywords: UNPUBLISHED People v. Black, 22CA0011 (May 29, 2025) Failure to grant a challenge for cause to a biased juror who convicted Black required reversal of the conviction. UNPUBLISHED People v. Villegas-Ortega, 22CA1509…

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  23. Episode 414 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 5/30/2025 Cases and Keywords: Bonde v. People, 2025 CO 24 (May 27, 2025); A person is not entitled to presentence confinement credit for the time served during the nonresidential portion of a community corrections sentence. People v. Ganaway, 2025...

  24. Episode 413 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 5/23/2025 Cases and Keywords: United States v. Wilson, 23-6150 (May 19, 2025) After a judge rejected Wilson's guilty plea, prosecutors used his plea statements against him at trial. The Tenth Circuit reversed his conviction, holding that FRE Rule...

  25. Episode 412 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 5/15/2025 Cases and Keywords: In re. People v. Chapman, 2025 CO 19 (May 12, 2025) There is no need for the DA to recuse because the judge they normally appear in front of is the named victim of the crime they are prosecuting. In re. People v....

  26. Episode 411 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 5/9/2025 Cases and Keywords: People v. Beverly, 2025 CO 18 (May 5, 2025) If a person commits suicide by ingesting fentanyl, the suicide can be an intervening cause that renders the distribution of fentanyl not the proximate cause of death for...

  27. Episode 410 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 5/2/2025 Cases and Keywords: Marquez v. Schafer, 2025COA44 (May 1, 2025); The district court dismissed the petition finding Marquez's municipal ordinance conviction constitutes a misdemeanor under local law, as set forth in §921(a)(33)(A)(i) after...

  28. Episode 409 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    Welcome to our new, abbreviated format! If you would like to comment on the changes, please use the contact link below or email us care of Jonathan. Thanks! Shawndell and Sarah This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 4/25/2025 Cases: Waugh v. Veith, 2025COA41 (April 24, 2025); Actions...

  29. Episode 408 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 4/18/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:24) People v. Hernandez, 2025 CO 13 (April 14, 2025); Appeal filed in the Supreme Court should have been filed in the Court of Appeals. (02:23) In re. People in Interest of J.D. 2025 CO 14 (April…

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  30. Episode 407 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 4/11/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (02:09) People v. Harmon, 2025COA38 (April 10, 2025); Introduction of deceased witness's testimony given at a prior civil trial. (08:32) People v. Spomer, 2025COA39 (April 10, 2025); Is an arrest...

  31. Episode 406 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 4/4/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:32) People v. Claycomb 2025COA 36 (April 3, 2025); Jury instruction for "without due regard" and intervening cause, Court's instruction to continue deliberation. (11:56) UNPUBLISHED People v....

  32. Episode 405 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 3/28/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:54) People v. Duran, 2025COA34 (March 27, 2025); Alleging deficient performance of plea counsel in PC petition, proportionality of sentence. (05:48) UNPUBLISHED People v. Yribia, 23CA0732 (March…

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  33. Episode 404 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 3/21/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (02:09) People v. Cichuniec, 2025COA33 (March 20, 2025); The filing of a valid direct criminal appeal does not divest the district court of jurisdiction to assess costs against a defendant. (02:54)...

  34. Episode 403 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 3/14/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (02:20) People v. Williams, 2025COA26 (March 13, 2025); Evidence sufficient to establish involuntary intoxication. (06:35) UNPUBLISHED People v. Woodward, 21CA1198 (March 13, 2025); Cross-examination…

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  35. Episode 402 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 3/7/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:56) In re. People v. Silva-Jaquez, 2025 CO 11 (March 3, 2025); Discovery and Disclosures in a 35(c) proceeding. (06:02) Snedeker v. People, 2025 CO 10 (March 3, 2025); Corrections to sentences...

  36. Episode 401 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 2/28/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:25) People v. Trujillo, 2025COA22 (February 27, 2025); Jury instructions for retaliation against a witness or victim and for attempt to commit retaliation against a witness or victim. (07:28)…

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  37. Episode 400 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 2/21/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (00:48) Giron v. Hice and Olathe, 2025COA17 (February 20, 2025); No governmental immunity for a fatal collision during officer's high speed pursuit of a speeding vehicle without emergency siren or...

  38. Episode 399 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 2/14/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:51) Densmore v. People, 2025 CO 6 (February 10, 2025); Whether a DHS child welfare case worker was acting as an agent of law enforcement when she elicited inculpatory statements. (06:01) Frazee v....

  39. Episode 398 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 2/7/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (02:17) People v. Pham, 2025 CO 4 (February 3, 2025); Suppression of fruit of unsupported dog search of vehicle. (08:08) People v. Mena, 2025COA14 (February 6, 2025); Evidentiary issues, Conviction of...

  40. Episode 397 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 1/31/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:52) People v. Ragsdal, 2025COA9 (January 30, 2025); Restitution above the statutory limit for the charge is justified by need to compensate the victim for actual losses, Denial of motion for…

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  41. Episode 396 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 1/25/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (02:34) People v. Rodriguez-Morelos, 2025 CO 2 (January 23, 2025); Under section 18-5-902(1)(a), identity theft can only be committed against a person and not some other form of entity. (04:38)…

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  42. Episode 395 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 1/17/2025 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (00:53) UNPUBLISHED People v. Walker, 22CA0208 (January 9, 2025); 404b and Res Gestae evidence, a Batson challenge, Juror contact with a detective witness, presumptive blood evidence and the reagent...

  43. Episode 394 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 1/10/2025. Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (00:52) People v. Johnson, 19CA0768 (January 2, 2025); Denial of Batson challenge, Failure to instruct jury on self-defense, Prosecutorial misconduct. (10:10) UNPUBLISHED People v. Rogers, 21CA1666...

  44. Episode 393 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/27/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:51) The Gazzette v. Bourgerie, 2024 CO 78 (December 23, 2024); Colorado Peace Officers Standards and Training Board ("POST") qualifies as a criminal justice agency and falls under CCJRA instead of...

  45. Episode 392 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/20/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:35) McDonald v. People, 2024 CO 75 (December 16, 2024); Wells-Yates's holdings don't apply retroactively to cases on collateral review. (04:37) Ward v. People 2024 CO 76 (December 16, 2024);...

  46. Episode 391 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/13/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:26) People v. Former Judge Woods, 2024 CO 72 (December 9, 2024); Per curium opinion issuing a public censure. (02:46) People v. Barnett, 2024 CO 73 (December 9, 2024); Reasonable suspicion for...

  47. Episode 390 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 12/6/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:13) UNPUBLISHED People v. Jebe, 23CA1676 (December 5, 2024); Government's deadline for filing appeal was not extended by the prosecution's motion for reconsideration and JEEN was not shown for the...

  48. Episode 388 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 11/22/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:08) UNPUBLISHED People v. Sepulveda, 23CA1429 (November 21, 2024); Trial court jurisdiction to rule on motion to return seized property. (03:05) UNPUBLISHED People v Vandervelde 23CA1759 (November...

  49. Episode 389 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 11/27/2024 Cases and Keywords with timestamps: (01:26) Migoya v. Wheeler, 2024COA124 (November 27, 2024); Section 22-9-109, the Colorado Licensed Personnel Performance Evaluation Act (CLPPEA) carves out an exception to CORA for the evaluation...

  50. Episode 387 - OADC Weekly Case Law Update

    This podcast covers case summaries distributed on 11/15/2024 Links: Westlaw Precision training resources: https://answers.legalprof.thomsonreuters.com/wlp or https://training.thomsonreuters.com/legal-westlaw-precision Contact Shawndell Irving here: Shawndell Irving Music by Scott Holmes. Used…

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This weekly podcast is intended for criminal defense teams and covers relevant case law updates, interesting tidbits, and information about the Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel in Denver, Colorado.

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