Judge: McLean, Stevens didn't fabricate evidence

By Heath Urie
Monday, May 5, 2008

PDF: Read the order by Judge Klein denying the Kirlins' case

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Aerial photo of the Kirlin property adjacent to the McLean and Stevens home.

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VIDEO: Nov. 18 protest picnic in support of the Kirlins. WATCH »

VIDEO: Take a look at Don and Susie Kirlin's land and hear them speak about the case. WATCH »

MAP: Satellite image Google map of Hardscrabble Drive.

AUDIO: Listen to NPR's report on the case.

AUDIO: Local singer Don Wrege composed several songs about the land dispute.

• 1. Stealing Land From Our Neighbor
• 2. This Land Belongs to Don & Susie
• 3. Edie & Dick (The Grinch Theme)

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Documents:

PDF: Read the court order.

PDF: Read the letter to Susie Kirlin from the Colorado Supreme Court’s Attorney Regulation Counsel rejecting her legal ethics claim

PDF: Read a letter sent from Richard McLean and Edith Stevens to their friends and supporters, in which they explain their actions.

PDF: Read a column by Boulder County Bar Association president Sonny Flowers that defends Boulder District Court Judge James C. Klein.

PDF: Read the police report about the suspicious package

PDF: Read the order by Judge Klein denying the Kirlins' case

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Richard McLean and Edith Stevens did not fabricate evidence or lie to win their controversial land case against neighbors Don and Susie Kirlin, District Judge James C. Klein ruled Monday.

Klein's order essentially upholds his decision last fall to award about 34 percent of one of the Kirlins' vacant lots on Hardscrabble Drive to McLean and Stevens after they sued for it using the squatter's-rights law of "adverse possession."

"I think it completely affirms our position," McLean said Monday. "The court's duty is to ignore thepublic perception of the case and apply the facts as he finds them to be."

The Kirlins filed paperwork earlier this year alleging that McLean, a former district judge, and Stevens, an attorney, faked evidence of a dirt path across the Kirlins' property and lied about using it for more than two decades.

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