internal affairs
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State crime lab debacle had earlier warnings of misconduct from ‘golden child’ DNA scientist
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State crime lab employees for years repeatedly tried to warn their superiors at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation that Yvonne “Missy” Woods had become a rogue employee who was cutting corners. But officials failed to respond forcefully until last year, when an intern at the lab found new anomalies, an internal affairs investigation found. The…
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Appeals court finds Pueblo judge wrongly withheld officer’s misconduct records
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A Pueblo County judge should have released to the defendant his arresting officer’s disciplinary history for dishonesty and poor evidence-handling, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. District Court Judge Thomas Flesher refused to disclose the officer’s records during the 2020 trial of David Juhl Cox, asserting they were irrelevant and that the officer was “not…
