Tag: Michael Dougherty
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Boulder man sentenced after selling drugs to teenager who fell off of a crane
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge sentenced a 25-year-old man to 35 years in prison after he was convicted of selling psilocybin mushrooms to minors, with one falling from a crane while being under the influence of the drugs. Boulder District Judge Dea Lindsey sentenced Benjamin Harmon to…
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Man sentenced to 51 years in Boulder for drug operation
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder District Court judge on Friday sentenced one of 16 suspects accused of being part of a major drug ring. Judge Andrew Hartman sentenced Carlos Ytuarte-Quinones to 51 years in prison on two counts of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, distribution of methamphetamine and…
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Driver sentenced to 4 years in the death of champion cyclist in Boulder
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge Friday sentenced the woman who hit and killed 17-year-old cycling phenom Magnus White to four years in prison. District Court Judge Dea Marie Lindsey sentenced 24-year-old Yeva Smilianska on a count of vehicular homicide in connection to White’s death on the morning of July 29,…
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‘I felt this sense of peace’: Amid CBI lab scandal, Colorado man gives first interview since release from prison
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Michael Clark awoke with a start at his usual time, just after 5 a.m., his eyes adjusting to the darkness, his brain gauging the surroundings that felt familiar yet also somehow foreign. What struck him most that first morning was the quiet. It had never…
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Magnus White’s parents press for changes in how law enforcement handle fatal crashes
“He was a leader on the bike. He was a leader off the bike.”
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Driver found guilty of killing champion cyclist in Boulder
Magnus White, 17, was killed in the crash on July 29, 2023
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Colorado’s DNA scandal: Hundreds of cases affected, but very few retests ordered
It has been 17 months since a young forensic biology intern doing research at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab noticed something amiss in data sets produced by Yvonne Woods, the state’s most prolific and revered DNA analyst. She alerted supervisors. What followed that September day in 2023 has grown into a scandal of…
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Boulder police arrest 52-year-old suspect in homeless teen’s death
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More than six months, after her body was found wrapped multiple times and strapped to a bike trailer in Boulder, police announced an arrest in the suspected murder of homeless teenager Zaria Hardee. Boulder Police Department officers announced the arrest of James “Jimmy” West, 52, during a news conference Thursday. West, who is also homeless,…
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‘Planet Boulder’ brought down to earth by worsening problems with homelessness
There’s a classic saying that the City of Boulder is 25 square miles surrounded by reality. After years spent on the ever-intensifying frontlines of homelessness, Jen Livovich has a saying of her own. “Reality has come to Boulder.” Livovich slept on Boulder’s sidewalks for five years, sometimes behind the municipal building, where she watched the…
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Prosecutor requests new DNA testing in Colorado murder case tied to CBI scandal
The Boulder County district attorney has asked for new DNA testing in the murder case of a defendant who was convicted largely on the strength of the analysis done by now disgraced Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist Yvonne Woods, who goes by Missy. In a court filing Nov. 1, Michael Dougherty said the additional…