Tag: traumatic brain injury
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Former Colorado Springs doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former Colorado Springs physician was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. According to previous reporting by The Gazette, Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key…
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Former area doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former El Paso County physician was sentenced in late September to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key Bank locations and a…
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Former area doctor sentenced for shooting spree
A former El Paso County physician was sentenced in late September to 12 years in prison for a shooting “frenzy” that left one person injured last year. Rupesh Jain, 54, fired shots inside his own apartment near Interquest and Voyager parkways and wounded a sleeping neighbor before shooting into two Key Bank locations and a…
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Appeals court: Defendant’s traumatic brain injury not a basis for finding life sentence unconstitutional
Despite the state legislature’s recognition that traumatic brain injuries lead to a greater risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday ruled such injuries do not make a defendant’s life sentence cruel and unusual. Stanley Paul Jurgevich, who is serving life in prison with the possibility of parole for his 1988…