One of four teenagers convicted in the 2007 stabbing death of Lafayette mother Linda Damm has served his two years in the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections and is due to be released April 4.
Jared Smith, 18, was convicted as a juvenile of being an accessory after the crime and was sentenced in April 2007 to serve two years in a juvenile facility, followed by six months of parole.
He appeared Monday before a parole board, which set the conditions of his release, Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said.
Garnett couldn’t confirm those conditions Monday, and state officials didn’t return several phone calls. But Damm’s sister, Helen Gardner, said she understands that Smith will have to wear an ankle bracelet and be monitored by Global Positioning System — a condition the family pushed for.
“I am pleased,” she said. “There is nothing more they could have given us.”
Smith was arrested Feb. 28, 2007, along with Linda Damm’s then-15- year-old daughter, Tess Damm, and the girl’s boyfriend, Bryan Grove, then 17. Police said the three talked at a restaurant one night about killing Linda Damm, then returned to her Lafayette home, where Grove stabbed the 52-year-old woman to death while Smith and Tess Damm drove around.
Afterward, Smith helped wrap Linda Damm’s body in blankets and put it in the back of her Subaru in the garage, where it was discovered weeks later.
Grove was sentenced to 40 years in prison in January 2008 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Tess Damm was sentenced to five years in the Division of Youth Corrections, followed by 18 years in prison, after pleading guilty in March 2008 to second-degree murder as a juvenile and solicitation to commit second-degree murder as an adult.
