PEOPLE v. VILLANUEVA

Court of Appeals No. 14CA1220.

374 P.3d 535 (2016)

2016 COA 70

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Martin VILLANUEVA, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. V.

Announced May 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia H. Coffman , Attorney General, Ethan Eliot Zweig , Assistant Attorney General, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

The Noble Law Firm, LLC, Antony Noble , Lakewood, Colorado; Ann P. Kaufman, P.C., Ann P. Kaufman , Taos, New Mexico, for Defendant-Appellant.


¶ 1 In September 2005, Martin Villanueva was arrested for the murder of Benjamin Garcia-Diaz. The police and prosecutors maintained that Villanueva shot Garcia-Diaz, who was a drug dealer in Villanueva's cocaine operation, because, in late 2004, Garcia-Diaz had been arrested, $30,000 worth of Villanueva's drugs had...

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