A Colorado judge has disqualified District Attorney Jeff Lindsey and the entire 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office from an ongoing murder prosecution. The judicial action followed the court’s finding of an “egregious pattern of discovery violations and a lack of candor to the court,” leading to a determination that the accused could not receive a fair trial under the current prosecution. This decision also coincided with a reduction of first-degree murder charges in the case.

Judge John D. Echeverria denied a defense motion to reduce a felony resisting arrest charge to a misdemeanor, a decision rendered after a preliminary hearing in which two San Francisco police officers presented conflicting testimony regarding the circumstances of the accused’s apprehension.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge John D. Echeverria ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold an individual to answer on a charge of receiving a stolen vehicle during a preliminary hearing, despite defense arguments that the prosecution failed to establish the accused’s full knowledge of the vehicle’s stolen status.