FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Weld County prosecutors are asking the Colorado Supreme Court to restore two perjury counts against a Fort Collins police lieutenant accused of perjury after lower courts struck them down.
According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan ( ), District Judge Ingrid Bakke of Boulder dismissed several counts after the officer’s attorneys argued the evidence didn’t support them and prosecutors want the charges restored.
The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out two of nine perjury counts against former Fort Collins police Lt. Jim Broderick, who is accused of lying during the prosecution of Tim Masters in the slaying of Peggy Hettrick in 1987. Masters spent almost 10 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned by DNA evidence.
The city has continued to pay Broderick’s salary of more than $102,000 a year.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan,
