James M. Candelaria

United States District Court for the District of Colorado magistrate 4 signed orders read

How Judge Candelaria decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Procedural preferences

On a referred suppression motion he issues a split recommendation after a hearing, recommending suppression of statements in part while denying suppression of a vehicle search.

“the Court RECOMMENDS Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements ... be DENIED IN PART and GRANTED IN PART”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

United States v. Kloeppel
1:21-cr-00035-REB-JMC · 2022-01-25
Motion to suppress (defendant) Granted in part

“the Court RECOMMENDS Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements ... be DENIED IN PART and GRANTED IN PART”

Motion to suppress (defendant) Denied

“Defendant's Motion to Suppress Illegal Search of Vehicle ... be DENIED in its entirety”

United States v. Begay
1:24-cr-00259-GPG-JMC · 2025-03-18
Motion to exclude speedy trial time (defendant) Granted

“The Defendant's unopposed motion to exclude an additional 90 days from the requirements of the Speedy Trial Act [ECF No. 19) is GRANTED”

United States v. Maher-Young
1:24-cr-00096-GPG-JMC · 2025-03-18
Motion to exclude speedy trial time (defendant) Granted

“The Defendant's unopposed motion to exclude an additional 90 days from the requirements of the Speedy Trial Act [ECF No. 42) is GRANTED”

United States v. Sutherland
1:25-cr-00082-GPG-JMC · 2025-04-14
Motion to restrict (plaintiff) Granted

“the Government's Motion to Restrict Document [ECF #20] is GRANTED”

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