Denver November 2004 Election
Yesterday three of the candiates for Denver District Attorney were asked how they would handle police shootings as D.A., according to the Denver Post [April 1, 2004, "DA candidates debate cop shootings"]. From the article, "'We need to deal with this issue, and there are multiple levels on which we need to address it,' said John Walsh, who from 1993 to 1995 was chief of the Major Frauds Section of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. He was a member of the team that investigated and prosecuted Charles Keating and other officers of Lincoln Savings & Loan(CQ). 'The grand jury is a tiny part of that. I support the use of the grand jury under the right circumstances and in some cases to deal with police shootings. But it is not a panacea,' he said...Mitch Morrissey, who has been in the Denver district attorney's office for 20 years and is considered one of the nation's leading prosecution experts on DNA evidence, said that he would take such police conduct cases to an 'open grand jury,' not to a closed grand jury. Beth McCann, who was a prosecutor in the Denver district attorney's office for seven years and is now the Colorado deputy attorney general for litigation, told a candidates forum at the Denver Bar Association that taking the cases to a grand jury would result in more public faith in the findings of such investigations."
I still haven't found a website (or weblog) for Beth McCann. e-mail me if you have the URL. Ms. McCann, I can help you get started with a weblog. No charge.
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