PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A man found guilty of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer was denied effective assistance of legal counsel, and his conviction and sentence must be vacated, ...

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In several prior decisions, appellate courts across the state have addressed the merits of ineffective assistance claims brought in a Sex Offender Registration Act matter, without deciding whether ...

The high court’s unanimous decisions in Seamus Coyle v. State and Harry Davis, Jr. v. State, were both authored by Justice Shirley Watts. (The Daily Record/File Photo) In a pair of rulings Wednesday, ...

For the first time, Colorado's second-highest court has recognized there is a right to effective assistance of counsel for people involved in criminal cases whom the government wishes to forcibly ...

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled 6-3 in Shinn v. Ramirez that “a federal habeas court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing or otherwise consider evidence beyond the state-court record based on the ...