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Virginia Watson remembers a Mesa County prosecutor telling her and other members of the family of murder victims Janet Davis and her daughter Jennifer in 2003 that the man who

The person who caused the most harm to Peter Nardi during the former Aspen bartendar’s trial nearly eight years ago was not one of his defense lawyers, but Peter Nardi himself. A District Judge ruled Friday Nardi does not deserve a new trial.

A hearing to determine if a former Aspen bartender convicted eight years of attacking and sexually assaulting a former girlfriend will get a new trial will resume Tuesday.

Lawyers for a former Aspen bartender convicted of sexual assault in 2014 bungled his case so badly, he deserves a new trial, according to Peter Nardi’s new attorney.

The fate of the overturned convictions and sentencing of Verle Mangum in the 1996 bludgeoning deaths of a Clifton woman and her daughter is now in the hands of the Colorado Court of Appeals. The appeals court is considering a challenge by local prosecutors of a judge’s 2019 finding that Mangum deserves a new trial due to ineffective legal representation by his trial and appeal attorneys. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have completed filing of briefs in the case and a ruling on the appea...