DENVER—The Colorado Court of Appeals is affirming a sentence for a Lafayette girl charged in the slaying of her mother in 2007.
Tess Damm was 15 when prosecutors say she plotted with friends to kill Linda Damm. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and solicitation to commit second-degree murder.
She was sentenced to five years in the state juvenile system, followed by 18 years in state prison, with a little more than a year in pre-sentence confinement credited toward the prison sentence.
Damm argued that the pre-sentence confinement also should count against her juvenile sentence, or that some of the time she spent in the juvenile system should count against the prison term. A court ruling Thursday upholds her original sentence.
