Legal Opinion
Bolles v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided October 6, 1975No. C-584PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pringle
This case involves the single question of whether subsection (l)(e) of Section 18-9-111, 1 C.R.S. 1973, is overbroad in its proscription and there fore facially unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article II, Section 10 of the Colorado Constitution.
In December of 1973 the defendant, Frank Bolles, as acting president of the Boulder chapter of the Colorado Right to Life Council caused to be mailed to the homes of approximately 2400 Boulder County residents anti-abortion material which was enclosed in a plain envelope. Each piece of…
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