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There was no dispute that Justin Brendan Martinez shot and killed his friend, Ismael Huerta, inside Martinez's house. Martinez and another witness described the shooting as a freak accident, one
An Adams County judge did not make a mistake when he left jurors without a definition of "universal malice" — a phrase state law does not define and that no other state apparently uses in its own murder laws, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
Colorado law does not define "universal malice." No other state's murder laws mention universal malice. And an Adams County judge did not tell Cristobal Fernando Garcia's jury what universal malice meant.
Colorado law generally prohibits local prosecutors from charging defendants for a criminal offense if they have already been prosecuted for the same conduct by "the United States, or another state, or ... a municipality." But what about another country?
Colorado's appeals court ruled an Adams County sheriff's deputy performed an illegal pat-down search in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent.