State officials want to move Lafayette teen murderer Tess Damm from a youth detention center to an adult prison in part because they say she plotted to strangle a guard with a shoelace in an unsuccessful escape plan late last year.
Boulder County prosecutors object to the transfer request from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office because they fear it would effectively shorten the amount of time Damm will serve for her role in helping her boyfriend murder her mother in February 2007.
A full hearing on the transfer request was scheduled for Monday.
Damm, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the gruesome homicide, was sentenced in May 2008 to 23 years in prison — starting with five years in the Department of Youth Corrections.
She was 15 at the time of her mother’s murder. She is now 18.
Her boyfriend, Bryan Grove, was sentenced to 40 years for wielding the knife that killed Linda Damm.
Tess Damm appeared in court Monday dressed in a red jail suit with her hands shackled to her waist. Her trademark long blond hair hung past her shoulders.
