DENVER — Denver’s district attorney is seeing a higher volume of sexual assault cases than her predecessor,but statistics show that hasn’t turned into a higher percentage of prosecutions. Beth McCann’s predecessor, Mitch Morrisey, and took a lot of criticism for refusing to charge 70 percent of rape cases,most under a classification labeled internally as “no fair likelihood of conviction.” According to a document compiled by McCann’s office, McCann has charged defendants in approximately 33 percent of rape cases, or a […]
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