The former public defender, Thomas Cushing, will also serve 20 years to life on parole for the felony.

The unilateral shift raised alarm among the city’s police oversight groups. Julia Richman, a member of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, called the directive “disheartening.”

A 40-year-old Aurora man shot and killed an acquaintance at an apartment complex early Tuesday morning after a fight about a stolen bicycle, according to court records.

A Jefferson County man was sentenced to 32 years in prison earlier this month after a jury found him guilty of attempted murder, assault and kidnapping for abducting and torturing his roommate.

The Boulder Police Department uses its fleet of Flock cameras to illegally surveil people without any probable cause, a proposed class-action lawsuit filed Thursday morning alleges.

Three people escaped the burning townhome on their own, and paramedics took them to the hospital with unknown injuries, according to the Westminster Fire Department.

The independent monitor overseeing court-ordered reforms for Aurora Police Department called for a review of three recent police shootings in which officers killed people who were in the midst of mental health crises.