The Boulder County public defenders representing a man suspected of killing his girlfriend in 2006 have asked the Colorado Supreme Court not to intervene with a lower-court judge’s ruling that prosecutors had insufficient evidence to take the man to trial.
Prosecutors have asked for a review of Boulder District Judge Lael Montgomery’s decision to uphold a county judge’s ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence to try John Michael Angerer for second-degree murder.
Angerer, 41, was arrested last year after his DNA linked him to a location in South St. Vrain Canyon where hikers found the body of Angela Wilds in June 2006.
The Boulder County Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of Wilds’ death was undetermined, but an outside forensic pathologist concluded that Wilds had been murdered and had died from asphyxiation.
At a preliminary hearing in July, a county court judge ruled that the outside pathologist’s findings were not “credible as a matter of law.” The charge against Angerer was dropped. Both sides now must wait for the Supreme Court to decide whether to have a review hearing. Daily Camera
