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I have been writing this column for 27 years. Not this precise column, mind you, but this series that began running in December 1995. Oh my! In the early years, I called the column “Staying.
prosecutor decided ton chano charge a man who broke no his home earlier in the day. shooting cook inside a home after a night of drinking. when the fight moved into the bedroom, hodgkins tackled cook and killed him. because of the make my day law, the version of the self-defense law. the district attorney wanted to charge the shooter, but says the law prevents him from doing so. the idea of letting someone who shot and killed another human being with a shotgun slug at point blank range and letting him get away with it, really concerns me. the colorado system doesn t have an answer for justice for randy in this situation. i didn t write the law. i took an oath to uphold the law.
and that s what i m doing. carmen, how does this make my day law tie prosecutors hands? i wish we dpt call to the make my day law, because it makes people, makes communities, that you have a certain power, a right and obligation, to go ahead and shoot people that come into your home. that s. the purpose. the purpose is to defend your home. defend your property when you feel in fear. that is what the cirques are. the prosecutors here is upset. feeling that his hand are tied. not because justice wasn t done. i think more because he could not have had the case presented to the grand jury based upon the laws in colorado. they did name it make my day, i mean, obviously, making a statement. and the statement is, this is another version of the castle doctrine. where you can protect yourself in your home. the prosecutor is upset about this case like we have other prosecutors frustrated about