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ACLU Accuses JeffCo Sheriff Ted Mink Of Unlawfully Imprisoning Suspected Illegal Immigrant For 47 Days

First Posted: 06/22/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:15 PM ET

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Westword:

​The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Jefferson County Sheriff, accusing him of illegally detaining a man for 47 days for the suspicion that he was an illegal immigrant.

Sheriff Ted Mink, the group says, kept Luis Quezada in Jefferson County jail in the summer of 2009 without any official charges after he was booked for failure to appear in court on a traffic violation.

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​The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Jefferson County Sheriff, accusing him of illegally detaining a man for 47 days for the suspicion that he was an illegal i...
​The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against the Jefferson County Sheriff, accusing him of illegally detaining a man for 47 days for the suspicion that he was an illegal i...
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Spiritof1982
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04:06 PM on 04/22/2010
Welcome to the gulag. This is what you get when you give C-average high school graduate a gun and a badge.
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