A Garfield County district judge sentenced a 14-year-old boy Wednesday to two years in the Colorado Division of Youth Services for shooting a dog to death and transgressions he committed in two unrelated cases.
That’s according to prosecutor Tony Hershey, who provided limited details about the proceeding Judge Paul Metzger closed to the public, other than those parties directly involved in the case.
“This is about protecting the community and helping this child,” Hershey said after the hearing.
Hershey and public defender Elise Myer had been under the judge’s directive not to speak publicly about the case. After his decision to close the hearing, however, Metzger said, “I think it’s appropriate for the court for a reporting of the outcome of the sentence as it relates to the case.”
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