Old Marijuana Convictions: CO Criminal Lawyers Pushing to Erase Them
Apr 10
2019

Posted by: Jacob E. Martinez

Category: Drug Crimes | Expungement / Criminal Record Sealing | Marijuana

Last month, the city of Denver hosted its first free legal clinic designed to help Coloradans with old drug convictions to have their records expunged according to new legislation.

In 2017 (three years after Amendment 64 was passed, and one year after it went into effect), additional legislation was passed in an effort to offer some reparative justice to those previously convicted of low-level drug crimes that would be considered legal under current law.

If you currently have an old [...]

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Colorado Criminal Charges Related to Prescription Drugs
Mar 28
2019

Posted by: Jacob E. Martinez

Category: Drug Crimes | Prescription Drug Crimes

The abuse of prescription drugs is an emerging epidemic that’s now recognized as a significant threat to public health. The death toll from prescription drug abuse is huge, and even includes a number of celebrities, like Prince, Tom Petty, and Anna Nicole Smith.

As the number of deaths from prescription drugs continues to rise sharply across the US, the federal government has commissioned various agencies to combat the prescription drug epidemic. Many states, including Colorado, augment the federal government’s efforts [...]

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Are Plea Bargains for Colorado Drug Crimes a Good Deal?
Dec 17
2018

Posted by: Jacob E. Martinez

Category: Drug Crimes

When someone is charged with a criminal offense on TV, the defendant usually goes to trial in a dramatic courtroom battle. However, while some cases do go to trial in the real-life criminal justice system, most defendants don’t ever end up in the midst of a courtroom battle.

This is because the vast majority of cases – over 90% – end in plea bargains. That means that fewer than 1 in 10 people facing either state or federal charges go [...]

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Report Overdoses without Prosecution: Colorado’s Good Samaritan Law
Oct 25
2018

Posted by: Jacob E. Martinez

Category: Drug Crimes | Drug Possession | Good Samaritan Law

In 2017, the number of drug overdose deaths in Colorado was the highest it has ever been – 959 people lost their lives to different controlled substances. Overdoses happen for many reasons, but in order to survive almost everyone needs the same thing – serious medical attention.

Unfortunately, the laws against drug use and the heavy punishments for drug crimes prevent many people from reaching out when they notice the signs of an overdose. In many cases, they don’t want [...]

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Drug-Free Zones: What Coloradans Need to Know
Aug 23
2018

Posted by: Jacob E. Martinez

Category: Drug Crimes

Drug-free zone laws are a longstanding sentencing policy intended to increase criminal penalties for drug crimes committed near places where children are likely to be present. For example, near schools and parks. The first drug-free zone laws took effect in the 1970s, and they were ramped up as the “War on Drugs” really took hold during the Reagan presidency.

The principle of drug-free zone laws is pretty simple and straightforward: keep dangerous drugs and violence related to drug trafficking away [...]

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