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Colorado Supreme Court says intimate messages irrelevant to assault case
The Colorado Supreme Court decided on June 23 that a Douglas County judge acted reasonably by blocking evidence of a defendant’s BDSM-related conversations with the victim in his trial for assault and false imprisonment. While the Court of Appeals believed that the communications between Donald Louis Gerle and the victim were relevant to proving whether…
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Colorado justices skeptical that intimate messages relevant to assault case
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court seemed to agree on Tuesday that a Douglas County judge acted reasonably by blocking evidence of a defendant’s BDSM-related conversations with the victim in his trial for assault and false imprisonment. Jurors found Donald Louis Gerle guilty in 2022. In the prosecution’s telling, Gerle began beating his alleged victim following…