Aspen Daily News: A district court judge will decide whether the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office can continue to deny a media company’s request for records related to the death of an elderly hiker in October.

Las Vegas-based EWU Media LLC is challenging sheriff’s office custodian Charles Matthews’ refusal to grant the true-crime production company’s request for reports, bodycam footage and photographs associated with the county agency’s investigation into the incident.

Those records are open to public inspection under the Colorado Criminal Justice Act, lawyers for EWU Media have argued.

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