Supreme Court of Colorado, 1999

The court upheld a Colorado statute restricting knowingly approaching people within eight feet, without consent, for specified expressive purposes near health care facilities. It held that the statute should be evaluated as a content-neutral legislative time, place, and manner regulation rather than under the more…

The court upheld Colorado's statute creating an eight-foot floating buffer zone within 100 feet of health-care-facility entrances against a facial First Amendment challenge. It held that the statute is a content-neutral time, place, and manner restriction, is narrowly tailored to protect access to medical counseling…

The Colorado Supreme Court held that while a defendant serving a mandatory sentence for child abuse resulting in death is generally eligible for sentence reduction after completing the regimented inmate training program, the court may not lower a sentence below the statutory minimum; therefore, the defendant, already…