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Motorcycle Accident

Late-Summer Motorcycle Accidents in Colorado Springs: Common Injury Claims and Legal Options

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Late-Summer Motorcycle Accidents in Colorado Springs: Common Injury Claims and Legal Options

A late-summer motorcycle crash in Colorado Springs can leave you facing serious injuries, medical treatment, lost income, motorcycle damage, and questions about insurance coverage. Warm riding weather can keep more motorcycles on the road, while lower evening sun, rain, hail, pooled water, construction zones, school traffic, and changing lane patterns can reduce visibility or traction. […]

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Juvenile Defense

Teen Charged With a Crime After Returning to School? A Colorado Springs Parent’s Action Plan

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Teen Charged With a Crime After Returning to School? A Colorado Springs Parent’s Action Plan

If your teen is charged with a crime after returning to school, focus first on protecting your teen’s rights, preserving evidence, and meeting every court and school deadline. Encourage your teen to remain respectful, but do not encourage a detailed explanation to police, school resource officers, administrators, classmates, or social media followers before a lawyer […]

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DUI

Prescription Medication DUI Arrests in Colorado

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Prescription Medication DUI Arrests in Colorado

Yes. You can be arrested for DUI or DWAI in Colorado after taking prescription medication, even when the medication was lawfully prescribed and taken according to directions. The central question is whether the medication, alone or combined with alcohol or another substance, affected your ability to drive safely. A valid prescription can explain why a […]

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Personal Injury

Back-to-School Accident Liability

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Back-to-School Accident Liability

Back-to-school traffic can place school buses, parents, teen drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, and children in the same crowded areas during short morning and afternoon periods. When a crash occurs in Colorado Springs, liability may fall on a careless driver, a vehicle owner, the person who signed a minor driver’s affidavit of liability, an employer, a rideshare […]

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DUI

Labor Day Weekend DUI Arrests in Colorado Springs: What Drivers Should Expect

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Labor Day Weekend DUI Arrests in Colorado Springs: What Drivers Should Expect

Labor Day weekend often brings increased impaired-driving enforcement across Colorado. The Colorado Department of Transportation funds 16 high-visibility enforcement periods each year around national holidays and major public events. These periods may include saturation patrols, sobriety checkpoints, and additional officers assigned to impaired-driving enforcement. If you are arrested for DUI in Colorado Springs, you may […]

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Criminal Defense

10 Steps After a Festival Arrest

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10 Steps After a Festival Arrest

An arrest at a summer festival, concert, fair, sporting event, or street celebration in Colorado Springs can develop within minutes. A security complaint, crowded confrontation, disputed instruction, suspected alcohol offense, or traffic stop after the event may lead to criminal allegations. Your first actions can affect the evidence, your release conditions, your driving privilege, and […]

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Pedestrian Accident

Why Pedestrian Accident Risks Increase in Colorado Springs During Summer

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Why Pedestrian Accident Risks Increase in Colorado Springs During Summer

Summer can place more pedestrians and vehicles on Colorado Springs roads at the same time. Residents and visitors walk near parks, restaurants, shops, hotels, trails, tourist destinations, and community events. Longer activity hours, sun glare, construction, sudden storms, distracted driving, turning vehicles, crowded parking areas, and unfamiliar motorists can create added risks. Summer is not […]

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DUI

Can a Passenger Be Charged With DUI or Drug Possession in Colorado?

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Can a Passenger Be Charged With DUI or Drug Possession in Colorado?

A passenger usually cannot be convicted of DUI in Colorado merely because the driver was impaired. A DUI charge generally requires evidence that the accused person drove or was in actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol, drugs, or both. A passenger may still face drug possession, open-container, obstruction, or other allegations […]

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Personal Injury

Summer Boating Accidents in Colorado: Who Pays for Injuries and Damages?

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Summer Boating Accidents in Colorado: Who Pays for Injuries and Damages?

A summer boating accident in Colorado can lead to medical bills, lost income, damaged property, and confusion about who is legally responsible. In many cases, payment may come from a negligent boat operator, boat owner, rental company, manufacturer, insurer, or another party whose conduct helped cause the crash. The Law Firm of Mark S. Hanchey […]

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Assault

Charged With Assault After a Bar Fight in Colorado Springs? What to Expect Next

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Charged With Assault After a Bar Fight in Colorado Springs? What to Expect Next

A bar fight in Colorado Springs can turn into an assault charge quickly, even when both people were drinking, emotions were high, or the other person started the confrontation. Police may rely on witness statements, surveillance video, injuries, and officer observations to decide whether to make an arrest or send the case to prosecutors. Colorado […]

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