For those that are buying what she is selling.....maybe you missed this recent article on the Public Defender is Prosecutor's clothing.....
http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?id=7839
BOULDER John Christopher Engel was barely 14 in 1999 when he killed his adoptive mother and grandmother in the familys south Longmont home.
At 16, he pleaded guilty to bludgeoning and stabbing to death Mary Reinschmidt-
Engel, 56, and her mother, Catherine Reinschmidt, 82.
Now 22, he is eligible to have his 32-year sentence reconsidered on April 17. The possibility that Engel could be released to a Boulder halfway house has set emotions boiling.
If they are wrong, an innocent person could die, said Steve Reinschmidt, who is Marys brother and Catherines son.
He said the boy seemed fine two weeks before the bloody attacks, and he is worried that the calm his nephew has displayed while incarcerated could quickly take a dark and explosive turn.
It was thoroughly planned, thoroughly thought out, and the victims were completely innocent, Reinschmidt said of the murders.
Reinschmidt said he and his family feel alone in their fight to keep John Engel behind bars because Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy and her staff have joined calls to alter the young mans sentence to keep him out of prison.
To make the halfway house option a possibility, Lacy appeared in front of the Boulder County Board of Community Corrections on Tuesday morning to ask that it approve halfway house funding for Engel if Boulder District Judge Carol Glowinsky allows him back into the community.
The time for this decision has come. Believe me, we have struggled very, very hard on this, Lacy told the board. We didnt want to go against what the victims want in this case. ... We are supporting it because it is the right thing to do with this case, with this defendant.
Reinschmidt said he will return to Boulder next week to detail his familys worries to the judge in a final effort to prevent Engels release.
On Dec. 11, 1999, Engel attacked his adoptive mother and grandmother with a hammer and a knife in the family home on the 2100 block of Indian Peaks Circle. Tom Engel, who was out for a jog when his wife and mother-in-law were killed, overpowered the teen and called police when he returned home.