Court Cases

In this case, ACLU lawyers filed suit against three Colorado State Patrol officers — and two training supervisors — in the wrongful death of an unarmed Grand Junction man who was shot at point-blank range and killed in the summer of 2010 when he refused to allow officers to enter his home without a warrant.

This case alleges that Denver police targeted plaintiff Jose Sanchez unjustifiably while he was standing lawfully on the public sidewalk outside the home of his girlfriend, plaintiff Joshinna Carreras.

This case, which names the Weld County sheriff and district attorney as defendants, challenges the validity of the search warrant and the subsequent search of tax records and asserts that Weld County officials violated the right of privacy of thousands of innocent taxpayers who were not suspected of any wrongdoing.

The ACLU filed this lawsuit on behalf of Mercedes Archuleta, who was falsely arrested, strip-searched, and jailed on the basis of a groundless and wrongfully obtained arrest warrant that accused her of a Lakewood ordinance violation with which she had no connection whatsoever.