Pueblo’s city attorney this week defended the city’s use of contempt charges to extend jail sentences for municipal court defendants in her first public comments since a Denver Post investigation found the practice was unprecedented in Colorado’s major cities and likely unconstitutional. Carla Sikes, who served as the presiding judge of Pueblo Municipal Court for eight years before becoming Pueblo’s city attorney in March, defended the municipal court’s practice as fair, necessary and limited in scope during a City Council work session Monday. “I don’t care how frustrated I got, I would never do anything that was illegal, knowingly illegal,” she said.

 

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