Author: Jenny Deam
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Former CBI DNA expert Missy Woods plea delayed again
The case against Yvonne Woods, the state’s former top DNA scientist at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab, was pushed back again Tuesday with an arraignment for her to enter a plea now scheduled for Feb. 11. The court case will have stretched a year next month. Woods, who goes by Missy, is at…
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Michael Clark murder defense seeks to link case to JonBenét investigation ‘mistakes’
In new legal filings, Michael Clark, now facing a second trial for a 1994 murder, seeks to link alleged Boulder police missteps in his case with the city’s most notorious cold case: JonBenét Ramsey. The unusual claim came within a flurry of 12 subpoenas to Boulder authorities seeking documents and other information connected to the…
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Boulder prosecutors to re-try man accused of murder
Michael Clark, the man accused of a 31-year-old Boulder murder case but freed from prison on bail in April when his original conviction was set aside, will be tried for a second time, a Boulder County prosecutor announced on Thursday. The decision comes after months of speculation as to whether Boulder County District Attorney Michael…
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Boulder prosecutors to re-try man accused of murder
Michael Clark, the man accused of a 31-year-old Boulder murder case but freed from prison on bail in April when his original conviction was set aside, will be tried for a second time, a Boulder County prosecutor announced on Thursday. The decision comes after months of speculation as to whether Boulder County District Attorney Michael…
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New CBI Director Armando Saldate III plans to increase transparency
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On July 25 Armando Saldate III took over as the director of the state’s troubled Colorado Bureau of Investigation amid an unprecedented scandal in the agency’s forensic crime lab, where it was discovered a former employee allegedly compromised and altered DNA evidence in criminal cases…
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Denver police crime lab triples number of cases under review in CBI scandal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver Police Department’s crime lab has now significantly expanded its review of DNA testing previously done by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s troubled forensic lab, bringing the total to more than 1,300 past sexual assault cases in the area. That is more than triple…
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‘All I ever wanted was a fair trial’: Colorado man Clayton Hood cleared in sex assault
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Clayton Hood stood in the Douglas County Courthouse on June 6, breathing hard, his heart pounding, waiting for the judge to speak. The jury had just decided his case for a second time. Then came the words: “not guilty.” Suddenly, everything seemed to blur. After…
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New law on post-conviction counsel access, notification in the works following CBI scandal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new state law is being sought to demand better notification to defendants of potential wrongful convictions following the scandal at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation involving tainted DNA tests in hundreds of cases going back decades. The Office of the Colorado State Public Defender…
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DNA scandal leads to plea deal that frees Colorado murder suspect from custody
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A suspect in a decades-old murder and rape in Weld County could be released from jail as early as Friday after the district attorney there “very reluctantly” agreed to a plea agreement because key DNA evidence in the case was compromised by an embattled Colorado…
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How Colorado became the focal point of 14th Amendment efforts to disqualify Trump from the ballot
The extraordinary Colorado election case now headed for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if former President Donald Trump is disqualified from the ballot had its humble beginnings three years ago in the Maryland basement office of a self-proclaimed legal nerd. It was around New Year’s Day 2021. Constitutional scholar and University of Maryland law school…