FORT COLLINS — A Dec. 1 court date was set Tuesday for Fort Collins police Lt. Jim Broderick, accused of felony perjury in connection with the Tim Masters murder investigation.
Broderick said nothing during the hearing, which lasted 15 minutes. But, just like during Broderick’s first hearing in July, several of Masters’ family members were in court, eyeing Broderick and hoping the case against him is solid enough to send him to prison.
“Not once has he said he’s sorry; he’ll never say he’s sorry,” said Colleen Masters, Tim Masters’ aunt.
At the Dec. 1 hearing, Broderick’s attorneys are expected to argue that a grand jury indictment accusing him of fabricating evidence against Masters lacks sufficient evidence. Masters was convicted in 1999 of mutilating and killing Peggy Hettrick in 1987. But Masters was released from prison in 2008 after a judge overturned Masters’ conviction, ruling that new DNA tests pointed to another person in Hettrick’s killing. A Larimer County grand jury indicted Broderick in June on eight counts of felony perjury in connection with his work in the Hettrick case. Monte Whaley, The Denver Post
