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Our chief areas of interest include drug policy reform, women in prison, racial injustice, the impact of incarceration on children and families, the problems associated with re-entry and stopping the practice of using private prisons in our state.

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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Denver Cops: Medical marijuana sale leads to fatal shooting - The Denver Post

Denver Cops: Medical marijuana sale leads to fatal shooting - The Denver Post

A "medical marijuana" sale gone awry early this morning led to the fatal shooting of a man in Denver.

The incident happened at about 12:25 a.m. at a home on the 2600 block of Leyden St., said Sonny Jackson, a Denver Police Department spokesman.

When officers arrived at the scene they found an unidentified man who was shot in the head, Jackson said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A short time later another man walked into the Denver Health Medical Center to be treated for a gun shot wound.

Investigators believe the shooting victims are linked and that the two men were "conducting a medical marijuana transaction at the residence when an altercation occurred," Jackson said.

Police are investigating the incident as a homicide and the man who wound up at the hospital is being held as a suspect in the fatal shooting.



Read more:http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14122238#ixzz0bkKXViPB

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