With wire-rim glasses and a red-tinged moustache, Judge Ruckriegle is faced with balancing a defendant's right to a fair trial with an accuser's rights under Colorado's rape-shield law, in one of the highest-profile criminal prosecutions of the year.
But lawyers who've appeared before the judge say he won't leave any room for nonsense.
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