Larry W. Exline v. Frank O. Gunter, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections

WESLEY E. BROWN, Senior District Judge.

In October, 1986, in the district court of El Paso County, Colorado, Larry Exline was convicted of one count of sexual assault on a child. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction, People v. Exline, 775 P.2d 48 (Colo.App.1988), and certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court of Colorado.

One of the issues presented in the state appeal was whether the state trial court erred in denying Exline's motion for discovery of the victim’s social services child abuse records. The state appellate court found that Exline had failed to make a sufficient…