Denver DA’s office prosecuted 44% of rape cases presented by police in 2020

Denver’s prosecution rate is “average,” says official with Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network

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John Leyba, The Denver Post
Former State Rep. Beth McCann is sworn in Jan. 10, 2017 as Denver district attorney at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building.
By Shelly Bradbury | sbradbury@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
August 1, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

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Shelly Bradbury is the courts reporter at the Denver Post. She joined the paper in 2019 and previously worked as a crime reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee. She’s been a reporter since 2012, focused on criminal justice. In Pittsburgh, she helped the newspaper earn the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news after a mass shooting at a local synagogue, and in 2020 she was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for an investigation into child sexual abuse among Amish and Mennonite communities.