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Opinion: On marijuana, legalization the far better choice Stanley Garnett FacebookTwitterEmail The interior of a medical marijuana dispensary that opened in Connecticut in 2016.File photo My experience as a prosecutor in Colorado before, during and after marijuana legalization has led me to conclude that legalization and regulation is a far better approach than criminalization. After nearly 30 years as a trial lawyer, including four as a deputy district attorney in Denver, I was elected the dis...

Letter for burke. he was going to go with my brother. we signed the papers to do that. >> finally the d.a. came forward with the long awaited news. >> the boulder grand jury has completed its work. no charges have been filed. >> the headlines said it all, the nation was stumped. john and patsy ramsey would not be charged and neither would anyone else. >> i think there was a collective feeling of, oh, no, were never going to know who murdered this little girl. >> a decade after jonbenets murder, ...

>> the grand jury decision 14 years earlier was not as it had been portrayed. jurors had actually voted to charge john and patsy ramsey. brennan wanted to get ahold of the grand jurys decision, himself. he went to court. >> i dont think most of us could believe it. he won and they unsealed those grand jury records in 2013, and it was quite illuminating. >> 17 years after jonbenets murder, the court released four true bills or written decisions from the grand jury. the jury recommended indicting ...

The family of the child beauty queen jonbenet ramsey -- >> new touch dna evidence was found by guessing where jonbenets killer handled her pajama bottoms. forensic scientist angela williamson led the work. >> whoever committed this offense pulled down her long johns then pulled them back up because she was found dressed. >> technicians tested on both sides of the long johns waistband. >> its the same dna. its the same male thats in the underpants thats on the side of the long johns. >> tests a d...

Note. the ramseys had submitted multiple handwriting samples. >> johns definitively was cleared >> yours was not? >> mine scored 4.5 out of 5. 5 is no match. >> there are investigators who say patsy ramsey could not be excluded as an author. its very subjective. >> three months after jonbenets murder, police were no closer to an arrest. the d.a. made a bold move, hiring veteran homicide detective lou schmidt. >> perhaps at first i leaned towards the parents doing it, but as i got into the case i...

Say? or what did he say or something to that nature. they lied about burke being awake at the time the 911 call was made. >> the ramseys fired back. >> some police claim they think they hear that. we would challenge the police to release that tape. lets make it public. >> they never did. burke was eventually cleared as a suspect, and to this day whatever is heard at the end of that 911 call is a mystery. nearly two years after the murder of jonbenet ramsey the investigation was frozen. the bould...

Its extremely unusual that a district attorney not sign an indictment when a grand jury returns a true bill. >> with the charges that the grand jury had voted to indict, are they referring to a third person? >> it does appear that the theory they were looking at assumed that maybe someone other than the two ramsey parents had been involved in what happened. >> john ramsey, although well aware of the grand jurys decision, has his own opinion. >> what we were indicted for, which was nonsense, was ...

The family of the child beauty queen jonbenet ramsey -- >> new touch dna evidence was found by guessing where jonbenets killer handled her pajama bottoms. forensic scientist angela williamson led the work. >> whoever committed this offense pulled down her long johns then pulled them back up because she was found dressed. >> technicians tested on both sides of the long johns waistband. >> its the same dna. its the same male thats in the underpants thats on the side of the long johns. >> tests a d...

February 1997, two months after the brutal murder of jonbenet ramsey. d.a. alex hunter delivered an ominous message. >> i mentioned the list of suspects narrows. soon there will be no one on the list but you. >> its an untold part of this story is how many leads these guys chased down. >> thats another thing that made this suitable for tabloids. on the suspect list is santa claus. the guy who had been in the ramsey house playing santa. >> john ramsey later told police he thought santa claus was ...

Its extremely unusual that a district attorney not sign an indictment when a grand jury returns a true bill. >> with the charges that the grand jury had voted to indict, are they referring to a third person? >> it does appear that the theory they were looking at assumed that maybe someone other than the two ramsey parents had been involved in what happened. >> john ramsey, although well aware of the grand jurys decision, has his own opinion. >> what we were indicted for, which was nonsense, was ...