Colorado's second-highest court on Thursday declined to apply a major state Supreme Court decision retroactively and enable more people to challenge their criminal convictions. In 2022, the Supreme ...

In a precedential move, the Colorado Supreme Court "discarded a troublesome relic" from that state's common law of evidence—the res gestae doctrine. "It is time for us to bury res gestae," Justice ...

Facing life in prison for killing his lover and son, Ronald Burgos-Aviles' defense laid out alleged points of error from the ...

If you can’t explain why you need something, maybe you don’t need it at all. That’s the way we feel about the outdated doctrine of res gestae. First, the hard part: explaining it. A Latin term, it ...

A Pueblo County judge should not have allowed jurors to hear about the racist comments a defendant made toward his friend hours before allegedly assaulting his godson, the state's Court of Appeals ...

Bengaluru: Since witness accounts aren't easy to obtain in sexual-assault cases, courts are allowed to consider, juxtapose or string together disparate events, statements or actions under less-known, ...

The fact a defendant can effectively be deprived of the right to challenge his accuser must be revisited, argues Ben Henriques Res gestae is the principle that any statement made by a person so ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lawyers for James Holmes will be able independently to inspect all the physical evidence collected in the Aurora movie theater shooting case, but they’ll ...