Who is the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition?

Our mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado. We are a coalition of nearly 7,000 individual members and over 100 faith and community organizations who have united to stop perpetual prison expansion in Colorado through policy and sentence reform.

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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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Judges with ties to botched case appear ousted - The Denver Post

Judges with ties to botched case appear ousted - The Denver Post

FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Northern Colorado voters appear to have ousted two state judges who were the prosecutors in a botched murder case.

Unofficial results reported by the Fort Collins Coloradoan on Wednesday show voters choosing not to retain Judges Terry Gilmore and Jolene Blair.

Gilmore and Blair were the prosecutors in 1999 when Timothy Masters was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole.

They were later appointed as state judges for Larimer and Jackson counties.

Masters' conviction was overturned in 2008 after new DNA tests failed to put him at the scene.

Masters received $10 million from Fort Collins, Larimer County and their insurance companies to settle a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit.



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