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Last Updated: 26 March 2018

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U.S.Circuit Courts

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Driving Related Sites

Drug Law and Related Information for Drug Defenses

Ethics

Experts

Federal Agencies

Federal Rules

Firearms Issues

  • Defense Training Institute and John Farnam provide perhaps the best pistol, rifle, and shotgun training in the world. Literally.
  • S.B. 84 has been withdrawn by its sponsers in light of the Columbine School Masacre. This was likely within three days of being on the Governor's desk for signature when the tragedy at Columbine occurred. This would have pre-empted local control of firearms, and made Colorado a uniform "shall issue concealed carry permits" instead of a "may issue" state. A house bill H.B. 1316 was killed by the Senate.
  • Federal Gun Control Amendments,in ASCII.text, or,
  • The N.R.A. website has legal resources included. Charlton Heston's speech to the NRA membership at the Denver 1999 annual meeting is available there in streaming video and streaming audio

Forensics

Founding Documents

General Search Sites

History and Government Resources

Immigration

Internet Investigation Tools, Software, & Phone Books

  • gogoshopper Excellent guide to net scams
  • Google is a wonderful search engine. Check out the advanced features.
  • Google for academic publications hard to find, expert background information.
  • Dogpile is also stupendous. If you cannot find it on the web with one of the two, try to revise your search.
  • Denver Court phone numbers and other Denver City Government phone numbers, searchable.
  • GeographyNetwork.com is a global community of data providers who are committed to making geographic content available.
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading and printing .pdf documents, free software.
  • Write Your Rep for E-mail to U.S. House of Representatives.
  • eGroups is a free service for setting up and managing your own listserv (professional, family, friends, etc.).
  • Browse anonymously on the Internet.
  • Card Catalogs for Colorado's major libraries
  • Virus and Virus Hoax sites

  • Stella Awards debunked. NO ONE got rich tripping over their toddler.
  • Vmyths.com is a useful site dealing with myths, hoaxes, and the like.
  • Symantec Encyclopedia of virii and hoaxes. This is the best.
  • Rob Rosenberger's wonderful site on virii and hoaxes, with links to other major similar sites, and many Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and definitions.
  • McAfee anti-virus and other computer maintenance type software.
  • Symantec is the home of Norton anti virus, WinFaxPro, and much more.
  • CERT Virus Advisories is the "horse's mouth" for ACTUAL computer virus information. The Computer Emergency Response Team and Carnegie Mellon's Dept. of Defense funded-computer security team.
  • Urbanlegends.com for checking out people waking up in tubs of ice with their kidneys removed.
  • Finding People, Addresses, Emails, Phones, and Maps

  • visualroute and analogx are on the technical side, and are tools for tracing the path taken by internet messages to and from your computer. Definitely for the techno-geek. Try running the command "tracert" (without the quotation marks) from your START>RUN on Windows
  • PeopleSearch for finding addresses, phones, and E-mails.
  • American Information Network charges $20 to search databases for Driver's License records, (47 states), locate people, and more. I've used this, and it was the best $20 I've spent in a long time. With name and state, I got addresses, dob, social security, and neighbors (addresses, names, and many phone numbers), going back to 1993.
  • Genealogy Library from Ancestry Co.
  • World Telephone Directories
  • Bigfoot People search
  • Delorme for driving directions and maps
  • Mapquest is a wonderful source of maps to and from anywhere, with detailed driving directions.
  • Lycos Maps and Directions
  • Reverse telephone listings! I think this is the current best site for this purpose.
  • Lawyers.com is the Martindale-Hubbell lawyer locator and links to other Martindale resources.
  • Colorado Voters A free website listing Colorado Registered Voters.

Jury

  • Juryinstruction.com is a site with a free sample, and what appears to be a wealth of jury instruction information, language, case law, commentary, and more.

Juvenile Justice

Life After Law

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Lists of Links

Media

Money Laundering

Municipal Codes

Organizations and Agencies

Polygraph

Restorative Justice

Sentencing and Jails

Sexual Assault Materials

  • Sex Offender Management Board with links to treatment standards in pdf format from the State, on line. Should be current.
  • Sexually violent predator community notification standards, Colorado Dept. of Corrections, final form, in .pdf
  • Dept. of Justice DNA testing, what all officers should know, and post-conviction DNA testing (see What's New>Publications).
  • Institute for Psychological Therapies has sex assault resources.
  • Open Records has registered sex offenders listed on-line (not including Colorado yet).
  • Young v. Weston, 9th Cir says you cannot jail sexually violent predators for life if the purpose is punishment instead of treatment.
  • HB 99-1260 Pending, juvy sex offender records public, probation may include residential community corrections.
  • HB 98-1088 deals with a variety of issues, including the new rule regarding service of a subpoena duces tecum on parents to subpoena the child, new rules regarding record sealing and related identification information, central registry of restraining orders, and more.
  • HB 98-1177 deal with sex offender registration changes.
  • HB 98-1156 provides for life sentences and life probation for some sex offenders, and much more. The C.R.S. for this is 16-13-801, et. seq.
  • Sex Assault Resource Page
  • Federal Guidelines in final draft for dictating states' compliance with Megan's Law and the Jacob Wetterling Act regarding sex offender registration.

Statistics and Criminal Justice Statistics

Statutes and Regulations

Supersearch Sites

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  • Data Bases Public Records to the general public, including background checks, locations, and the like, small fee per search, comprehensive. Fabulous resources.

Supportive Organizations

Tools of the trade, Investigators

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  • Trip.com has links to major airlines for price and scheduling, as well as TRIPTRACKER, which permits you to check on the status and arrival time of flights, up to the minute.
  • Email Pager permits wireless e-mail to a small, hand held device, up to 8 pages of text
  • Spotted Horse does courtroom graphics, multimedia presentations, and more.
  • Bindertek makes state of the art binders for trial and case files. They have seriously improved on the three ring binder.
  • Fountain Pen Hospital is a WONDERFUL place to buy pens of all types. Get their catalog.
  • Nibs Re-tipped to repair your favorite fountain pen nibs.
  • Pendemonium Vintage writing collectibles.
  • the Goodman Law Firm showing what can be done with a law firm's website, with some work. Very easy to use links to a lot a legal information. I found the Vermont Court Rules in about a minute using this site. For anyone considering a web site for their firm, this is a must see site.
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