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In the first case to be unhinged by the recent government lab DNA scandal, a man accused of first degree triple murder plead down to second degree murder in Boulder Thursday. Garrett Coughlin, 30, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the 2017 murders of Wallace “Lance” White, his wife Kelly Sloat-White, and his brother Emory Fraker.
Garrett Coughlin, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2017 killings and was sentenced to 42 years in prison with seven years of pre-sentence credit, avoiding the mandatory life imprisonment that accompanies a first-degree murder conviction.
A Boulder man who took a plea deal in a child sexual exploitation case was sentenced to Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation and two years of work release on Monday.
A Superior man accused of possessing child sexual exploitation material was sentenced to six years of sex offender probation and 15 days in jail after taking a plea deal in February.