Tag: Yvonne “missy” Woods
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Former CBI DNA expert Missy Woods plea delayed again
The case against Yvonne Woods, the state’s former top DNA scientist at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab, was pushed back again Tuesday with an arraignment for her to enter a plea now scheduled for Feb. 11. The court case will have stretched a year next month. Woods, who goes by Missy, is at…
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Man sentenced in 39-year-old Lone Tree murder case
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A packed Douglas County courtroom was silent as a nearly four decade-long cold murder case came to a close on Thursday afternoon. Michael Jefferson, 67, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced to 32 years in prison — the maximum number…
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CBI finds more than 1,000 cases impacted by DNA mishandling during scientist investigation
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The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has now identified more than 1,000 criminal cases impacted by the mishandling of DNA evidence while the bureau investigated former forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods. The investigation into all of Woods’ cases began in September 2023 and, following the completion of the review, 1,003 cases were identified as “impacted” by…
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DNA scandal leads to plea deal that frees Colorado murder suspect from custody
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A suspect in a decades-old murder and rape in Weld County could be released from jail as early as Friday after the district attorney there “very reluctantly” agreed to a plea agreement because key DNA evidence in the case was compromised by an embattled Colorado…
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DNA test request denied for man claiming innocence in 2003 rape conviction
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge on Friday denied access to DNA evidence that defense lawyers say will exonerate a man whose 2003 conviction of a heinous rape at a Lakewood trailer park rape largely relied on the testimony of a former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist who was…
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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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Glimpse of Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA testing backlash offered by first wave of court hearings
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The curtain lifted Wednesday to unveil the first glimpse of how a Colorado Bureau of Investigation scandal involving the work of a veteran DNA scientist might play out in dozens of courtrooms across the Front Range. In an hour-long Boulder court hearing permeated by questions and uncertainty, a Boulder judge delayed the trial of an accused…
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Over 1,000 Colorado criminal cases ‘in question’ after state DNA scientist accused of data manipulation
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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 Woods’ work. The internal CBI investigation found that Woods deviated…