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Colo. Supreme Court Won’t Review Rape Case

The Colorado Supreme Court this week declined to review a lower court’s ruling saying a Colorado district attorney acted properly in refusing to take the case of a woman who claimed she was raped, the Associated Press reports. The woman alleges she was raped by two men in 2000, one of whom was later tied to the University of Colorado football team sex scandal a year later. The case against her alleged attackers was dropped when she refused to testify, but she later pressed prosecutors to renew the case. The Colorado Court of Appeals last year affirmed 18th Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers’ decision not to prosecute the case. Justice Gregory Hobbs was the only member of the high court who voted to hear the case, to consider “[w]hether the court of appeals erred in overturning the district court’s decision ordering prosecution and the appointment of a special prosecutor….”

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