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Prosecutorial Misconduct Records Protected by Colorado Supreme Court and SCOTUS
Loaded on June 5, 2019
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2019, page 49
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Public Records.
Location:
Colorado.
by Ed Lyon
In a February 2019 decision that impacts access to public records, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) refused to review a unanimous ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court issued eight months earlier which denied The Colorado Independent access to court documents in a capital murder case. That ruling leaves ...
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