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Appeals court finds Broomfield police did not coerce confession over phone
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Colorado’s second-highest court determined last month that Broomfield police did not coerce a telephone confession out of a suspect by telling him a detective was “not going to look for you.” Within minutes of answering law enforcement’s call while he was in Mexico, Ricardo E. Munoz-Diaz admitted to killing Amalia Karolina Lopez-Leon in her home. He…
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Colorado Supreme Court rules undefined phrase in murder law needs no definition
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An Adams County judge did not make a mistake when he left jurors without a definition of “universal malice” – a phrase state law does not define and that no other state apparently uses in its own murder laws, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The jury that convicted Cristobal Fernando Garcia of attempted extreme…
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Colorado appeals court overturns murder conviction due to unconstitutional search warrant
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday reversed a woman’s murder conviction in Adams County because the search warrant police used to uncover incriminating information from her cell phone was unconstitutional. A jury convicted Dayna M. Jennings in 2019 of murdering her father, William Mussack, after she poisoned him with the animal sedative acepromazine and buried him in concrete…
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Colorado Supreme Court considers whether criminal conviction suffered from undefined legal phrase
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Colorado law does not define “universal malice.” No other state’s murder laws mention universal malice. And an Adams County judge did not tell Cristobal Fernando Garcia’s jury what universal malice meant. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court considered the possibility that Garcia’s attempted murder conviction may require reversal if the absence of a definition led…
