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Despite the passage of Amendment 64, the federal law still outlaws the possession or cultivation of marijuana.  While there is an informal policy not to enforce the federal law in Colorado and other states with comparable laws, there have been federal prosecutions against growers with over 100 plants.  With the Presidential election soon approaching, it […]

In April 2014, the Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole announced a new Clemency Iniative through the Department of Justice to the President of the United States whereby persons convicted of federal crimes can petition the President for relief under certain circumstances.  Our firm is qualified to prepare and file such a petition on behalf […]

DENVER (CBS4) – “I was just sent to prison… for a crime I never committed,” Lorenzo Montoya says. At 29 years old, he has spent nearly half his life behind bars. But today he’s a free man, after making a deal with the Denver District Attorney’s Office. Back in 2000, the then young teenager was […]

At 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day, 2000, 29-year-old Emily Johnson, a special-education teacher and girls’ basketball coach, was found severely beaten on the patio of her home in Denver, Colorado. Her newly purchased Lexus was missing, as were the keys to the vehicle. Johnson died 36 hours later. A blood trail suggested to police […]

DENVER, Colorado (CBS) – Lorenzo Montoya, a 29-year-old man, was released from prison after a court in Denver overturned his murder conviction from nearly 14 years ago, according to CBS Denver. Montoya was convicted in the 2000 murder of 29-year-old Emily Johnson, a special education teacher at Skinner Middle School in northwest Denver. “He was […]

7 News DENVER – After 13 years, a man previously convicted of murder as a teenager had his charge changed and was released from prison Monday. Lorenzo Montoya was originally convicted of the first-degree murder of teacher Emily Johnson in 2000, when he was 15-years-old. Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney’s Office, said […]

9 News-DENVER – One of two juveniles convicted in connection with the murder of a beloved special-education teacher in 2000 has had his murder conviction vacated and pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the crime. Lorenzo Montoya, 29, was convicted of first-degree felony murder, aggravated robbery and first-degree burglary in the beating death of […]

Denver, Colo. – Lorenzo Montoya was released from prison June 16, 2014 after reaching a plea deal days before a scheduled hearing that would have revealed significant Constitutional flaws in his conviction and new evidence casting serious doubt on his guilt.  In January 2000, then fourteen-year-old Montoya was one of three Denver teens arrested and […]

The police stopped me when I was driving. Can they search my car? The legal rules that tell police when they can or cannot search your car are very complex and often depend on the specific facts of each case. Additionally, states my have different interpretations of the law or rules which govern their police […]