Tag: Jefferson County District Attorney
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Accusations of flawed Colorado crime lab work haunt 2003 rape conviction
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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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Jefferson County man get life in prison for murder of ex-girlfriend
A Jefferson County man received a life sentence for strangling his ex-girlfriend to death two weeks after pleading guilty to an attempted violation of a domestic violence protection order last year. A jury convicted Wayne Lotz, 59, last week of seven counts for the murder of Michele Scott, 55. Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies found Scott’s…
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Man charged by Jefferson County DA following chase by Denver police in Clement Park
The Jefferson County District Attorney charged one man in connection with a series of suspected crimes between April 9 and 10 whose apprehension involved a chase by Denver Police and ended with officers shooting him. Matthew Lowderback, 34, faces 12 counts filed by prosecutors in District Attorney Alexis King’s office on April 27: Attempted first-degree…
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Driver charged in wrong-way crash on I-70 that killed 1, injured 4
The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office filed charges in the wrong-way crash on I-70 that killed one and injured four over Thanksgiving weekend, according to a Wheat Ridge Police Department news release. The driver, Jonathan Alberto Lozoya Caldera, 29, of Arvada, was charged with vehicular homicide, three counts of vehicular assault, possession of a schedule…