memorializing a committed judge's career

Judge Morris W. Sandstead who ruled in the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury hearing is retiring the Colorado Judicial Branch announced today--.

Judge Who Dismissed JonBenet Ramsey Grand Jury To Retire
Published in the State Bill Colorado
By Don Knox, LAW WEEK COLORADO

"A longtime judge who ruled in matters as disparate as the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury and the Boulder “land grab” case is retiring...

Sandstead, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Colorado School of Law, has spent more than a quarter century on Boulder’s bench. His current workload involves mainly civil and domestic cases but during his over twenty years on the bench has handled criminal and juvenile cases as well.

Sandstead famously discharged the grand jury investigating the December 1996 homicide of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. After 13 months of secret testimony and an investigation that lasted 34 months and cost more than $2 million, the grand jury determined that no charges would be filed...

Unlike some other judges on Boulder’s district bench, Sandstead was generally not accessible to the media, a Boulder Bar Association survey found. His view is that all he has to say about a proceeding is said on the record in open court,” the Boulder bar reported."..."