Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:56:42 PM
There is a movement in the Colorado Judiciary to try to shut the public out of information about how it operates. This blog has written at length about the expense involved in getting court documents, $20/hour plus 75 cents a page in this district.
Today, the Rocky Mountain News editorializes on the difficulty it had in gaining access to the parole revocation hearing this past week for Dunston Sidner. The hearing was held in a jail, and the warden refused access. The reporter never made it into the hearing.
Turns out that Sidner's hearing, and many others, are held inside the Denver jail. Why? That's where the prisoners are, said Parole Board Chairman Al Stanley. Oh, and by the way, Stanley added, when the hearings take place in a jail, the warden can deny access to pretty much anyone he wants.
This is just one more demonstration of the level of contempt at which the justice system holds the public.