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From: Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current)
Date: 20071207
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As Oliver Wendell Holmes once explained, "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice." Perhaps that explains why O.J. Simpson got away with murder (in criminal, if not civil court). A more recent, local example is the injustice done to Don and Susie Kirlin of Boulder, whose property has been awarded by a judge to a pair of scheming, avaricious neighbors, Richard McLean and Edith Stevens (a married couple, hereafter referred to as the McLeans).

In essence, the McLeans' case is that they've been willfully trespassing and usurping the Kirlins' property for at least 18 years and ...

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