Word: hutfless
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Again, the county says it was constrained by matters outside its control. According to a report in the Denver Post, County Attorney Frank Hutfless maintains that to have taken the music off the tapes would have violated the court order for their release. "Had we edited out the music, we would have in effect tampered with the videotape," he is quoted as saying. In addition, Hutfless blames the release in part on the families' lawyers' use of Colorado's Open Records Act to obtain access to the tapes. "[They] could have obtained the same information by using the discovery process...
According to the Post, Hutfless said his decision to make the tape available to the public came after information that the tape was given to a television network within hours of its release to the victims' families. "We simply had no choice but to release the videotapes," he said. "If we did not release them, there would have been more lawsuits asking for their release and we would have lost." Hutfless said the $25 charge for each tape was meant only to cover the costs of their reproduction...