william alexander
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Appeals court clarifies Fifth Amendment rights of sex offense probationers
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that if a defendant on sex-offender probation refuses to accept responsibility for his crime as a condition of treatment, the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination may prohibit a judge from revoking his probation as a punishment. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals specified that its decision applied…


