CORA Requests

Sponsored by: Colorado Criminal Defense Bar 

CORA Request - How-To
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Noon - 2:00 PM
2 General CLE Credits 

~ Featuring ~

Kristen Frost of Ridley McGreevy & Winocur, PC

 CCDB | ADC Member Rate: $40
Non-Members: $60

~ Program Agenda ~  

The Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) can provide defense attorneys with important data and serve as a significant investigation tool which has the power to open doors to material and exculpatory information.   This session will outline the nuts and bolts of CORA, such as how to make a CORA request, how to issue a request for specific documents in specific cases, and the related timeframes and costs involved with a CORA request.  The session will also address strategy related to CORA requests, how to use the documents produced to further investigation, how to object to documents that are not produced, and how to use CORA to further your subpoena practice.

Presenter Bio:

Ms. Frost is a partner at Ridley, McGreevy & Winocur.  Before joining the firm, she worked as an Assistant Public Defender for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office in Jefferson County.  Since leaving the Public Defender’s Office, she has remained committed to indigent defense in representing court appointed clients as a CJA panel attorney in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Prior to moving to Colorado, Ms. Frost worked in private practice as a criminal defense attorney in Chicago and completed a fellowship in international criminal law and human rights at the Siracusa Institute in Italy.  

Kristen Frost specializes in federal and state criminal defense litigation, and cases involving international legal issues. Ms. Frost is an experienced trial lawyer, and as lead counsel she has tried complex cases in federal court, and in numerous state courts throughout Colorado, Illinois and Virginia.   Ms. Frost also handles grand jury representation, pre-trial representation and trial, appellate and regulatory matters. She has briefed and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Illinois Appellate Court, and the Colorado Court of Appeals.  She has defended a wide array of matters such as mail and wire fraud offenses, tax offenses, gambling and gaming offenses, civil rights violations, homicide, sexual assault allegations, narcotics offenses, theft, domestic violence allegations, and many other types of allegations.  Ms. Frost has served as a lecturer for the Public Defender’s Office, the CJA Panel in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and at the University of Denver.

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