Defending Drug Cases

A conviction on drug charges can affect you for the rest of your life.  Employers routinely conduct background checks on prospective employees, and anyone convicted of a drug crime will be placed at a severe disadvantage, especially in today’s economy.  To make matters worse, drug possession cases are typically felonies since Colorado has incredibly severe and strict [...]

Denver Police Accused of Planting Pot on Little Dead Girl to Prove Case Against Her Father

Today marked the last day of a two week trial in Denver District Court in the case of the People v. Leo Cisneros, the father of Auralia Cisneros, who was ten years old when she was shot dead in 2007.   Auralia was shot in the face when three burglars (who have already pleaded guilty) entered [...]

Arapahoe DAs turn over “newly discovered” evidence after defense rests at trial: The Aarone Thompson Case

For those who are unfamiliar with the Aarone Thompson case, a detailed description of this case would take several blog entries. In short, in 2005 in Aurora, Colorado, Aaron Thompson (the defendant in the case) reported to Aurora police that his daughter, nine year old daughter Aaroné, had runaway from home. The police conducted an [...]

Some Medicinal Marijuana Users Face Eviction

Can you imagine if the state you lived in permitted you to take a medication for your health, but if you took this medicine you could find yourself kicked out of your home? This insane predicament is what some Coloradoans find themselves facing–even if they have a medicinal marijuana license. The problem arises from a [...]

Parking In Denver: Bring Extra Change

A nasty side effect of the economic problems facing us is that cities are hard up for cash.  One of the ways desperate cities get money into their coffers is to increase the number of traffic tickets issued.  In Denver, that means that if you plan on parking downtown (reminder:  take RTD when you can), [...]

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated

Once again, it seems as if conventional wisdom is turned on its head. After years of CSI on television, the general public has embraced DNA evidence as the great “truth teller.” However, a recent study by Isreali scientists calls for great caution and a return to sanity. The bottom line is that there is no [...]

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Experienced and Efficient Legal Assistance At the Law Office of Andres R. Guevara in Denver, Colorado, I provide my clients with experienced and personalized legal representation. Prior to establishing my Denver law practice, I worked for several years as an assistant district attorney in the busiest county in New York. I handled hundreds of cases, [...]

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