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    Posted October 30, 2008 by
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    Buffalo NY vs. Denver Colorado, New York
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    What is Colorado getting away with?

     

    The state of CO is breaking laws and getting around them, they are stealing the rights of human life and then finding a law to cover it up with no consequence. Here's my personal story.

     

    My husband was on Mandatory Parole after serving his entire 2 year sentence.... Sequence of events;

     

    First, A Gang put a hit on my husband, in fact he was attacked on the streets of Denver, being smashed in the head with a blunt object knocking him out. (if you know about this gang then you know it's not pretty when they want someone dead)

     

     

    Second, My husband left the place he was staying at and moved down the road to avoid another attack. His parole officer told him he was out of her jurisdiction and forced him to live in the shelter being homeless and 2 minutes from where the attack took place, putting him in two situations that took his rights from him.

     

     

    Third, we got married, my husband requested 3 times for a transfer to NYS to be with me, she wouldn't file the paper work.

     

     

    Forth, I got pregnant, my husband requested again for a transfer and she wouldn't do it.

     

     

    Fifth, my husband was almost attached a second time at King Soopers, he managed to escape that attack, but he then went to the bus station and got out of CO, he came home to NYS with me and the kids. (Note, he tried it legally, Parole wouldn't allow legal, forcing him to not only come home to his wife and kids but to flea in an attempt to save his own life).

     

     

    I'm not saying it was right for him to leave but considering his life was threatened and his parole officer did nothing to help him, what choice did he have?

     

     

    Sixth, My husband was picked up in NYS. When the police arrived my house was surrounded, it was very intense. They came in the house and dragged him out, the kids were screaming, and In my drive way the police were yelling and put a paper in my face saying my husband was wanted on a class 2 sex charge. This wasn't true. The arresting officer calls me back and tells me it was a mistake, for some reason Colorado put it in their system that he was a sex offender to get him picked up faster, but that his entire rap sheet was drugs, nothing at all about sex. So I then went and Got his rap sheet for my self but couldn't get a copy of the warrant CO sent out. My husband was extradited back to CO. NYS claims that CO will lie to get someone picked up faster. My husband was charged with absconding and nothing more as far as LAW is concerned.

     

     

    Then my husband was in Denver County jail when his parole officer showed up to taunt him telling him he would stay in prison his entire parole life and not see his unborn son (my husband's first child). Can you imagine how he felt? I then decided to look up information on this parole officer and found my husband don't stand alone. For one she will not file paper work, even if an offender just wants to live 2 blocks down the road, if it's out of her jurisdiction she will send the offender to the shelter forcing them to be homeless or she will send them back to jail on a technical violation. She doesn't take in to consideration the fact that his or anyone else's life is or could be in danger.

     

     

    My husband did see Parole and they did tell him he would be released to NYS 2 weeks before our son is due to be born. And I am very grateful for that, but what about the rights that were violated? What about my husband's safety?  I have sent a letter to CDOC about not placing my husband in a facility where he can lose his life, and explained the situation, he had a different person reply to me saying my husband wouldn't be where Gang members are, I'm wondering how they plan to do that when the gang is all over the Colorado prison system? As far as I'm concerned they sentenced my husband to death and it started with his parole officer.

     

     

    What is being done in CO to help offenders? Obviously my husband's parole officer was more interested in killing him rather then helping him. Then CO got away with issuing a warrant with false information, what is the consequence for that? If my husband dies in prison what is the consequence for them allowing it despite my many efforts to inform them of the danger my husband's life is in?

     

     

    The state of Colorado issues death sentences without getting their own hands dirty. What about the lies that are being told? What is the consequence when an state is the one victimizing?

     

     

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