Boulder Camping Case Dismissed

Boulder, Colorado has dropped a case against three homeless men. The three men were ticketed for sleeping in public and for camping in the city of Boulder without a permit. The tickets carry a $100 fine, but this may be exchanged for 12 hours of community service for those that have no means to pay. The men decided to fight the tickets on the basis of the Eight Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause. But the city prosecutor has dismissed the case citing lack of evidence.

The true ownership of the property where the men slept and camped was not known at the time the case was to go before the court. And since defendants in the municipal courts have the right to trial within 90 days of entering a plea the prosecutor ran out of time.

This all seems very strange.

The prosecutor’s office could not in a 90 day time span find the true owner of a piece of property within the city of Boulder?

In 90 days the prosecutor could not figure out who the owner of the land was?
Either Boulder needs a new prosecutor or this smells really bad.

See the last line of the article that states the Boulder City Council on Tuesday is set to decide whether camping is allowed at all in the city. This is another politically decided case involving the homeless, and camping. Does the city of Boulder really think that by banning camping in the city limits that the homeless will simply disappear? Tell us what you think.

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_14915978#ixzz0lfGjMSJ1