In a recent article from the Denver Daily News Mr. Ted Tow, the executive director of the Colorado District Attorneys Council insisted that cases involving juveniles were always “carefully examined” by DA’s prior to determining if they will seek sentencing as an adult.

While it is nice to hear that cases are “carefully examined” by DA’s (and honestly, is that not simply the minimum standard?) examining those cases is not the prerogative of the prosecutor’s office; prosecuting them is. Judges do not have to please political supporters and worry about votes and elections. Judges do not have to fear making the tough, but morally correct, decisions;  DA’s do.  I would not want to place my child at the mercy of a DA–especially one that feigns objectivity when his or her imperative is prosecution.