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If DA Carol Chambers is right, everybody else is wrong

July 9, 2009

"It's rare for a judge to order a reluctant district attorney to purse a rape case, finding that the DA's decision not to file was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. But that's what happened last year in a decade-old sex assault case in Arapahoe County that we reported on in "CU in Court" -- a case muddled by the fact that one of the suspects was a University of Colorado football player and prosecutors told the victim they didn't want to seem to be "jumping on the bandwagon" at the time of other rape allegations on the Boulder campus."

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Judiciary Committee votes to abolish death penalty

A Face the State Staff Report

February 24, 2009

The House Judiciary Committee voted Monday to approve a bill that seeks to abolish the death penalty in Colorado. Money currently used for death penalty cases would instead fund the cold case unit of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Supporters of the legislation claim the move would save taxpayers money while also bringing justice to more victims of violent crimes.