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Panel won't probe Boulder land ruling
The Denver Post ^ | 11/21/2007 | Tom McGhee

Posted on 11/21/2007 8:13:56 PM PST by george76

A judiciary oversight committee has rejected a Boulder couple's request to investigate a neighboring couple who used an arcane legal loophole to take over their property.

The Colorado Supreme Court's Attorney Regulation Counsel rejected Don and Susie Kirlin's request to investigate ex-judge and former Boulder mayor Richard McLean and his lawyer wife Edith Stevens, who won a strip of their property on Hardscrabble Drive.

In a letter to the Kirlins, assistant regulation counsel Louise Culberson-Smith said that the McLean and Stevens' use of an "adverse possession claim" to win the land does not constitute a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

McLean and Stevens won a third of a vacant lot that the Kirlins owned for more than 20 years, making it impossible for them to build a dream home they had planned for the site.

The legal doctrine of "adverse possession" lets someone who uses another's property for 18 years without an owner's objection ...

The Kirlins said that McLean and Stevens misused their knowledge of the law by trespassing on their property for years and then arguing that trespass gave them a right to the land.

"In my opinion that is not the way an attorney should use the law. The code of ethics says they will not use their knowledge of the law for personal gain over people that don't have that knowledge," Don Kirlin said Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: adversepossession; corruption; democratparty; donkirlin; edithstevens; judge; landgrab; lawsuit; mclean; propertyrights; propertytheft; richardmclean; ruling; scotus; stevens
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To: Smokin' Joe
Facts don't matter to the legal brahmins when they can use the system to take from you whatever they want--and have their friends help them get away with it.

Hope those Boulder high-society hostesses refuse to invite these two cretins to their parties. I sure wouldn't, without making sure my fur coats were locked in the closet upstairs, the Renoir in the living room has a hidden tracking device embedded on it and the silver was under lock and key!

101 posted on 11/30/2007 2:57:45 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: pray4liberty

Heck, I wouldn’t let the SOBs cut across my yard, for fear they would call it an established path and steal it.


102 posted on 12/01/2007 9:43:02 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: george76

Judge Denies Couple’s Request For 9 More Inches

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1935434/posts

RTD land grab raises hackles

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1934047/posts?page=15


103 posted on 12/06/2007 8:47:27 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Serendipity, I guess.

More like collusion and Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law--which are Federal crimes.

Somebody ping Troy Eid, the U.S. Attorney. A grand jury needs to be convened....preferably outside of Colorado.

Oh and by the way, Troy is a Republican.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/co/

104 posted on 12/19/2007 8:26:47 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: george76

CROOKS...


105 posted on 12/19/2007 8:28:35 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: george76

RTD land grab raises hackles
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1934047/posts?page=15

A Warning for Property Owners (Boulder, CO)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924861/posts

Retired judge: This land is my land (Jurist rules in favor of colleague, snatches $1 million parcel)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925997/posts

Land Lost After Boulder Couple Failed To Use It
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1926521/posts

Panel won’t probe Boulder land ruling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929194/posts

Having the legal power to effect a result is not a legal imperative to do so.

Assuming that McLean can state a successful claim for adverse possession, you just don’t do that to you neighbor, even an absentee neighbor.

One would think that a respected judge, who has witnessed the sad pagentry of litigation play out in his courtroom for years, would understand this, and would understand why people are upset.

It’s not about legal rights. It’s about doing what is right.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/nov/25/paths-never-crossed-families-in-land-battle-both/


106 posted on 04/03/2008 11:47:05 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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