Bid to drop Voorhis charges is rejected

By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News, February 6, 2008

A federal judge on Tuesday turned down a motion to dismiss charges against Cory Voorhis, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of looking up information about illegal immigrants to help Bob Beauprez's campaign for governor...

U.S. District Judge John Kane set a trial date of March 31.

The trial is scheduled to take eight days.

Voorhis is charged with exceeding his authorized access to a national crime database, a misdemeanor. He is on unpaid administrative leave.

Voorhis' attorneys argued that the charges should be dropped because Voorhis is the target of a selective prosecution. They said others who looked up the same information weren't charged with a crime.

In a daylong hearing Friday, three employees of the Denver District Attorney's Office said a staffer used the same database in October 2006, after Beauprez, a Republican, ran an attack ad against his opponent, Democrat Bill Ritter.

The ad accused Ritter of giving illegal immigrants plea deals when he was the Denver district attorney...

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