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A Colorado Court Case that Strengthened Due Process Rights

In 1959, 14-year-old Bobby Gallegos was convicted of first-degree murder in Colorado. According to the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Gallegos v. Colorado, the child and another juvenile tricked an elderly man into letting them into his hotel room, where they assaulted him, stole $13 from him and fled. 

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Colorado justices reject media request for police officer records on narrow grounds

At the same time the Colorado Supreme Court found that two media outlets were properly denied access to records bearing on police officers’ misconduct, it declined to endorse an interpretation of state law that would have enabled non-law enforcement entities to shield their documents by labeling themselves “criminal justice agencies.”

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