Fifth District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, a Republican, aims to win a seat from the Democrats and bring a prosecutor’s perspective to the Colorado Senate, The Summit Daily News reports. Hurlbert’s goals for the senate include a role in the major revamping criminal law — particularly regarding drugs and drunken driving — for effective alternatives to incarceration, as is being researched by the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice the state Legislature created a few years ago.