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DA removed from ongoing death penalty trial because of conflict of an assistant

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In Colorado, a death penalty case in progress had the prosecutors removed from the case because one of the assistant prosecutors represented the defendant for about six months years earlier. The case involves a prison killing. DA's office taken off murder case / A judge rules that Carol Chambers' office has a conflict of interest in a death penalty case involving inmates: District Attorney Carol Chambers' office has been yanked from a death penalty case after a judge ruled her office has a conflict of interest and violated professional rules of conduct. A special prosecutor will be appointed in the trial of Alejandro Perez, an inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility. Perez and inmate David Bueno have each been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another inmate, Jeffrey Heird, at Limon in 2004...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).