For those following the increasingly protracted effort to gain access to search warrant and arrest warrant affidavits in the case of Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the accused Planned Parenthood shooter, it doesn't look like the public will learn very much very soon.
A coalition of media, including the Independent and the Gazette, is trying to advance transparency in the case. For details of this argument, check this out:
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District Judge Gilbert Martinez filed a 43-page argument recently for why he's right to withhold these documents from the public, along with 73 additional pages of transcripts form the Dear hearings.
Read his arguments here:
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To read the Public Defender's Office's pleading in the case, representing Dear, click on this:
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The following was filed by the District Attorney's Office:
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Lastly, the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition executive director reports that Attorney General Cynthia Coffman has an opinion about it also:
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