The man convicted of raping and murdering University of Colorado Boulder student Susannah Chase in 1997 has filed yet another appeal in his case.
Diego Alcalde, 50, was found guilty by a Boulder County jury in 2009 of first-degree murder, first-degree sexual assault and second-degree kidnapping and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In December 1997, Chase was found raped and badly beaten in an alley near her home in Boulder and died later that day from her injuries. Her murder went unsolved for 12 years until DNA from semen found on her body matched a sample from Alcalde that had been entered into a national database.
Alcalde, who is serving his sentence at Sterling Correctional Facility, had previously appealed his case on the grounds that his Miranda rights were violated and that statements made during the trial by prosecutors and the judge should have resulted in a mistrial.
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