EDITORIAL: Colorado needs more justice, less ‘reform’

Remember the new Arapahoe County DA who let a teen motorist off with probation after he rocketed into another car at 90 mph on an Aurora residential street last year — and killed its driver?

It turns out newly elected 18th Judicial District Attorney Amy Padden thinks youths’ brains aren’t developed enough to face real-world consequences.

“We’re talking about kids, whose brains are not fully developed until they’re 25,” Padden recently told The Denver Gazette’s news staff…

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