DOE v. SECCOMBE

No. 25387.

493 P.2d 30 (1972)

Jane DOE, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Petitioner, v. Jarvis SECCOMBE, District Attorney for the Second Judicial District, State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wormwood, Wolvington & Dosh, J. Kent Miller, Denver, for petitioner.

Jarvis W. Seccombe, Dist. Atty., Coleman M. Connolly, Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for respondent.


GROVES, Justice.

Under Colo.Const. art. VI, § 3, the petitioner applied for a writ in the nature of mandamus. We were asked to order the respondent district attorney to certify that there is probable cause to believe that the petitioner was raped, in order that the petitioner might ask a special hospital board of three licensed physicians to authorize an abortion under 1967 Perm.Supp., C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-50. We issued a rule to show cause why the request for relief...

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