{"id":113469,"date":"2015-04-06T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-panel-flips-on-police-reform-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-04-06T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T23:07:08","slug":"colorado-panel-flips-on-police-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-panel-flips-on-police-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado panel flips on police-reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49e76aeb-258b-4505-8af9-44c9c549be4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49e76aeb-258b-4505-8af9-44c9c549be4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49e76aeb-258b-4505-8af9-44c9c549be4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=49e76aeb-258b-4505-8af9-44c9c549be4c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1817\" height=\"1189\" alt=\"The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday reversed course on a police-reform bill that it already passed, choosing to kill the measure concerning unlawful orders. Concerns were raised by law enforcement and prosecutors leading to the reversal.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday reversed course on a police-reform bill that it already passed, choosing to kill the measure concerning unlawful orders. Concerns were raised by law enforcement and prosecutors leading to the reversal.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee say they reconsidered the issue after supporting it Tuesday night, and therefore advanced a motion to take another vote on the issue. It took a two-thirds vote by the committee to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe rarely bring back a bill like this,\u201d said Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, one of four lawmakers to flip. \u201cBut we\u2019re late in the session, and if a bill is not fully ready for prime time, I don\u2019t think we have enough time to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other lawmakers to backpedal were Reps. Lois Court, D-Denver, Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, and Kevin Van Winkle, R-Highlands Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>The measure died on a 10-3 vote.<\/p>\n<p>It would have required a court to dismiss all charges against a defendant that were based on a violation of an unlawful order.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns were raised by law enforcement and prosecutors over a provision of the bill that would have allowed a court to order an agency that filed the charges to reimburse the defendant for attorney\u2019s fees. They also suggested that the bill is unnecessary, pointing out that there already are remedies through the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee on Thursday reversed course on a police-reform bill that it already passed, choosing to kill the measure concerning unlawful orders. Concerns were raised by law enforcement and prosecutors leading to the reversal.Associated Press file photo Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee say they reconsidered the issue after supporting it Tuesday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[94,14,13,52,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-113469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado-state-government","tag-colorado-state-house-of-representatives","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-law-enforcement","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113469"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=113469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}