Attorneys for former Boulder Mayor Bob Greenlee, who is charged with nine criminal counts for his role in a fatal five-car crash in southern Colorado late last year, on Monday said they’re commissioning their own experts to conduct an accident reconstruction.
Greenlee, 75, is charged with vehicular homicide and criminally negligent homicide, vehicular assault, two counts of careless driving causing injury, reckless driving, speeding, reckless endangerment and improper passing on the left.
He made his first appearance in the criminal case today in the form of a conference call between his attorneys, a prosecutor from the 12th Judicial District and Senior Judge Jon Kolomitz.
Kolomitz is a visiting judge who will preside over the case after the district’s sitting judges disqualified themselves because they all had worked with Patricia Lucero, the woman killed in the crash.
One of Greenlee’s attorneys, Mark Biddison, waived advisement and a formal reading of the charges. He then said that defense attorneys were still waiting on some evidence and said their own accident reconstruction would be complete in about 30 to 45 days, then requested a status conference in May.
Prosecutors did not object to the request, and Kolomitz set a status conference on May 3, to be once again held over conference call.
Greenlee is currently out of custody on a $25,000 personal recognizance bond. His driver’s license is currently suspended.
Greenlee did not speak during the conference call this morning except to acknowledge he understood the judge’s orders.
Greenlee was one of the drivers in a five-vehicle crash on Dec. 28 that killed Lucero, 70, of Monte Vista, and left Greenlee and his wife hospitalized with critical injuries.
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