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Denver jury should not have heard about defendant’s prior assaults of wife, appeals court rules
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A man convicted of beating his wife will receive a new trial after the state’s second-highest court determined a Denver judge mistakenly allowed jurors to hear about two previous instances of the defendant beating his wife. Under Colorado’s procedural rules, prosecutors cannot use evidence of a defendant’s other, uncharged misconduct to show that the person…
