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Denver voters said marijuana possession arrests should be a low police priority, but exactly how to implement that mandate is problematic by Laura Main, News2 January 28, 2008 DENVER (KWGN) — Last November, Denver voters approved a measure to make adult possession of less than an ounce of marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority in the city. To make sure that happens, Mayor John Hickenlooper created a review panel made up of citizens, police, prosecutors and city council members. . The panel has until the end of March to establish a police reporting system to make sure marijuana possession of less than an ounce is treated less seriously than say jaywalking. But this first meeting was largely about trying to sort out bigger issues. Panel member Brian Vicente started the meeting off by saying, “Our job, according to this, is to make sure that the law is implemented to the greatest extent possible and that’s what the voters want us to do.” But some members questioned the panel’s usefulness at all. “I mean, we’re just wasting our breath. [Denver Disrtict Attorney] Mr. [Mitch] Morrissey has refused to be even on this panel, so I don’t know that anything we do is going to have impact on his office’s policy decisions,” said Public Defender Frank Moya. Morrissey was invited to be on the panel, but he declined for legal reasons. His spokesperson, Lynn Kimbrough, said, “Participating in a panel whose objective is to dictate a priority in criminal prosecution simply goes …
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