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Colorado Sex Offenders Freed from Mandatory Parole
In one of the most criticized and widely reported rulings in Colorado history, the state Supreme Court has held that the state's mandatory parole laws do not apply to sex offenders whose crimes were committed on or after July 1, 1993, but before November 1, 1998. Shock waves rippled across ...
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