Philip Van Cise.
On November 19, Mayor John Hickenlooper sent out the formal invitation, inviting locals to come up with names for the two new buildings that will comprise the Denver Justice Center Complex. But the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to find the right name has been underway for some time, and we have a strong suggestion of our own: Philip Van Cise.
In the battle over naming rights for Denver's new Justice Center, two clear favorites have emerged: Dale Tooley, the city's district attorney for much of the 1970s, and Philip Van Cise, the one-term DA of the 1920s who busted a sophisticated ring of con artists and took on the Ku Klux Klan. Tooley was the mentor of numerous Denver attorneys who are still around to promote his memory, so the Van Cise camp has had to work harder to bring attention to their candidate.
How do you get people in
A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center -- and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn't among them.
To those who know anything of Van Cise's remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that the four selected candidates -- juvenile judge Ben Lindsey, influential district attorney Dale Tooley, former manager of safety John Simonet and district judge James Flanigan -- aren't deserving of rec
Philip Van Cise.
As Christoper Osher reports in this Denver Post article, Mayor John Hickenlooper has added one more to the list of candidates whose names might end up on portions of the new city justice complex: Van Cise. Gangbusting DA Philip Van Cise, the son of a prominent attorney and father of a state appeals court judge, was snubbed by the task force appointed to come up with suitable names, as noted in my previous blog, "No Justice for Van Cise?"
It would be tempting to believe that Hi
Philip Van Cise.
They're going to need some pretty big signs to hold all the names of the august Denverites honored at the city's new justice complex.
After a contentious, sometimes bitter and racially charged process that stretched over several months, the Denver City Council finally agreed Monday night, with one notable abstention, to name various buildings and components of the new complex after six influential figures in the evolution of the city's justice system.
"We've received a tremen
