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Appeals court finds no evidence judge told man to abstain from alcohol, reverses alcohol-related conviction
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A jury in La Plata County convicted a man of a felony for violating his bond conditions after police found him intoxicated in a parking lot. As evidence, prosecutors pointed to his bond paperwork, with a check mark next to the phrase “No Alcohol.” But the state’s second-highest court overturned Jeffrey Jon Hamerly’s conviction last…