Colorado’s highest court on Monday upheld the murder convictions of a Colorado Springs woman who .
Deborah Nicholls was arrested on murder charges following a grand jury indictment in November 2007, four years after the deadly blaze took the lives of 3-year-old Sierra, 5-year-old Sophia and 11-year-old Jay Nicholls. She and her husband, , were addicted to methamphetamine and deep in debt when he set their home in the Village Seven neighborhood aflame, jurors learned during his 2007 trial.
In a separate trial the following year, Deborah Nicholls was found guilty of crimes including three counts of first-degree murder. , without the possibility of parole, at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility.
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed in November 2013 to review her request for a new trial.
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