September 20 | Insurance Advocate

September 20

Pandemic or Not, Serious Insurance Fraud Criminal Must Serve the Sentence

Barry Zalma Covid-19, On My Radar September 21, 2020

Attempt to Avoid Sentence Because Of Pandemic by Insurance Criminal Fails Mikhail Zemlyansky is serving a 15-year sentence of imprisonment which was imposed in January 2016. He is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fairton, New Jersey. Defendant has moved for compassionate release under the First Step Act in light of the COVID-19 […]

September 20

Colorado Supreme Court Says: No Duty To Retreat in Self-Defense Case

Lawrence Rogak Courtside September 21, 2020

In People v Monroe (18SC708, decided 29 June 2020), the Colorado Supreme Court held that “in light of Colorado’s long-standing no-duty-to-retreat rule which permits non-aggressors to stand their ground when acting in self-defense,” a prosecutor may not argue that a defendant’s failure to retreat undermines the reasonableness of her self-defense argument.” As a result, a defendant’s conviction […]