Colorado Court of Appeals to hear arguments at NJC on March 22

    The Colorado Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in two cases at Northeastern Junior College in Sterling on Thursday, March 22, before an audience of high school and college students. The public also is invited to attend.
    The visit is part of the Colorado Judicial Branch’s Courts in the Community, an outreach program the Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals initiated on Law Day (May 1), 1986. The Courts in the Community program was developed to give Colorado high school students insight into the Colorado judicial system and illustrate how disputes are resolved in a democratic society. These are not mock proceedings. The court will hear arguments in actual cases from which it will issue opinions. The court generally issues opinions within a few weeks of the arguments.
    The 22 judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals sit in divisions of three judges to hear cases. Judges hearing cases at Sterling High School are David Furman, Terry Fox and Karen M. Ashby.
    Proceedings will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 22, at NJC, E.S. French Hall, 100 College Ave., Sterling, CO 80751. A question-and-answer session, during which the students may ask questions of the attorneys, will follow the arguments in each case. At the conclusion of the second argument, the students also will have the opportunity to participate in a question-and-answer session with the Court of Appeals judges.
    There will be a limited number of seats for the public. Audio recordings from the two arguments will be available online within one to two days of the arguments at http://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_Of_Ap peals/Oral_Arguments/Index.cfm.

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