Colorado Supreme Court Resumes Arguments, Authorizes Temporary Pause in Criminal Proceeding Livestreaming
The Colorado Supreme Court has returned from its summer recess and is scheduled to hold oral arguments this week. Concurrently, Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez has temporarily authorized trial judges to discontinue livestreaming of criminal proceedings for a period of 90 days. This directive comes despite a state law that generally requires such proceedings to be livestreamed by default. The Chief Justice cited concerns regarding the inappropriate use and monetization of livestreamed court proceedings as the reason for this temporary authorization. She invoked the Supreme Court’s constitutional authority over procedural matters to issue this directive, making blanket findings that the criteria in the law, which would typically allow individual judges to stop streaming, have been met. The court will hear arguments in three cases, including Hernandez-Escajeda v. People, Jones v. People, and Coombs v. DeHerrera et al., covering topics such as resentencing authority, admissibility of prior misconduct, and wate...
