Author: Christopher Osher
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El Paso County settles developer’s wrongful prosecution lawsuit for $3 million
El Paso County has reached a $3 million settlement with the developer Ray Marshall to resolve his federal lawsuit alleging a former investigator for the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office fabricated evidence and withheld evidence from his criminal defense lawyers. The lawsuit, which sought damages as high as $475 million, alleged Marshall was wrongfully prosecuted…
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El Paso County settles developer’s wrongful prosecution lawsuit for $3 million
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County has reached a $3 million settlement with the developer Ray Marshall to resolve his federal lawsuit alleging a former investigator for the 4th Judicial District District Attorney’s Office fabricated evidence and withheld evidence from his criminal defense lawyers. The lawsuit, which sought…
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Controversial parental evaluator faces suspension and warnings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado court administrators suspended parental evaluator Stephanie Norris from accepting court appointments after finding Norris failed to acknowledge an issue was beyond her competency when a judge appointed her to make custody recommendations in a contentious Moffat County case. The Colorado State Court Administrator’s Office…
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Colorado state program facilitated release of suspect 2 months before stabbing spree in downtown Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The suspect charged in the deadly 16th Street Mall knife attacks was released from custody months before the stabbings because of a mental competency court liaison program that state lawmakers tripled in size two years ago, an expansion that a legislative budget analyst now says…
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Accusations of flawed Colorado crime lab work haunt 2003 rape conviction
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Every Saturday, the call comes in at 10:30 a.m., on the dot. Vinnie Chacon knows that’s when her 64-year-old brother James Hunter will telephone her from Colorado’s Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City. Hunter has been incarcerated for more than 21 years, ever since his…
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DNA state crime lab debacle leads to first hearing alleging innocence
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Yvonne “Missy” Woods was nearly nine years into her career as a DNA scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation when she took the stand on Oct. 17, 2002, to admit a major embarrassment in her work – one she testified came as a “blow…
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Over 1,000 Colorado criminal cases ‘in question’ after state DNA scientist accused of data manipulation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DNA findings in more than 1,000 criminal cases in Colorado are now “in question” due to data manipulation by former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods, state officials announced on Friday when they unveiled the findings of an internal investigative report into…
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Jury awards $21.3M in damages in Colorado custody dispute involving false abuse allegations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jury has awarded $21.3 million in damages after finding an ex-husband corruptly manipulated his Routt County divorce proceedings to gain full custody of his children by falsely alleging his ex-wife’s new fiancé sexually abused one of the children. The mother of the three children…
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Colorado Springs woman seeks justice after texting app allegedly used to frame her in stalking case
Lisa Chase said she was arrested 4 times for allegedly sending threatening texts to her ex. It took over a year and thousands of dollars to prove her innocence.
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State clears child protection agency in Washington County of ‘systemic bias,’ but concerns remain
While substantiating many complaints from six families who claimed Washington County’s child protective workers unfairly targeted them and separated them from their children, an audit by the Colorado Department of Human Services has concluded the county agency did not engage in systemic bias. A state child protection watchdog, who in June called for the audit,…