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State of Colorado v. Damon Mamont Mathews
Durango, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree murder and felony assault. Damon Lamount Mathews, age 45, was accused for shooting and killing his wife Rachel Philips Mathews, age 47 on January 1, 2021. Defendant claimed that he acted in the heat of passion, a lesser offense than first-degree murder. The elements of the crime of ...
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( 04-22-2022 - CO)

United States of America v. Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company
Durango, Colorado civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants charged with causing a 2018 fire. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and its parent company, American Heritage Railways (together, the “Railroad”), under which the Railroad will pay $20 million to compensate the United States for damages caused by a 2018 fire near Durango, Colorado, and will also modi...
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( 03-30-2022 - CO)

United States of America v. Blair Root House
Durango, CO: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse against two different children below the age of 12. Blair Root House, age 63, of Towaoc, Colorado, was charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse against two different children below the age of 12. The offenses occurred while...
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( 10-07-2021 - CO)

United States of America v. Blair Root House
Durango, CO: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse against two different children below the age of 12. Blair Root House, age 63, of Towaoc, Colorado, was charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of sexual abuse against two different children below the age of 12. The offenses occurred while ...
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( 10-07-2021 - CO)

State of Colorado v. Cordell Schneidere
Durango, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with vehicular homicide. Cordell Schneider was charged with homicide and reckless driving for the March 4, 2020, crash near Marvel that killed 39-year-old Benjamin Sonntag. Defendant claimed that Sontag was riding in the wrong lane to speed his training ride....
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( 07-23-2021 - CO)

United States of America v. David Sidney Wells
Durango, CO - The United States of America charged David Sidney Wells, age 44, with for committing a violent sexual and physical assault against his wife on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation. According to court documents, as well as facts presented during trial and sentencing, Wells became angry with his wife at their shared residence in Towaoc, Colorado, on the Ute Mountain Ute In...
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( 06-10-2020 - CO)

United States of America v. Roger Chase Brassard
Durango, CO - Durango Man Sentenced To Nineteen Years In Federal Prison For Armed Carjacking Roger Chase Brassard, age 27, of Durango, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 228 months (19 years) in federal prison for ca...
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( 10-09-2019 - CO)

United States of America v. Wambli Mills
Durango, CO - Ute Mountain Ute Man Found Guilty of Rape Wambli Mills, age 23, of Towaoc, Colorado, was found guilty of federal sexual assault charges following a four-day trial before U.S. District Court J...
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( 07-19-2019 - CO)

United States of America v. The Durango & Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad Company and American Heritage Railways, Inc.
Durango, CO - The United States of America sued The Durango & Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad Company and American Heritage Railways, Inc. on damage to real property tort theories seeking to recover damages it suffered...
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( 07-11-2019 - CO)

United States of America v. Wendell Mills, Jr.
Durango, CO - Towaoc Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Attempted Murder of a Police Officer Wendell Mills, Jr., age 21, of Towaoc, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert ...
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( 06-10-2019 - CO)

United States of America v. Gloria Lee, et al.
Durango, CO - Six More Defendants Sentenced For Embezzlement from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe After this weeks sentencings, a total of 16 defendants have been prosecuted and held responsible for stealing over $...
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( 04-10-2019 - CO)

United States of America v. Bryan Ace Ponzo
Durango, CO - Habitual Domestic Violence Offender Sentenced To Federal Prison For Assault Victim was defendants wife Bryan Ace Ponzo, age 36, from the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation surrounding Towaoc, wa...
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( 10-20-2018 - CO)

United States of America v. Anthony Ryan Lopez
Durango, CO - La Plata County Inmate Sentenced For Conspiracy To Commit Bank Fraud And Money Laundering Anthony Ryan Lopez, age 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn yesterday to serve 24 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $98,902.76. Lopez pled guilty on June 28, 2018. The sentence was announ...
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( 10-12-2018 - CO)

United States of America v. Ugur Ulupinar
DENVER, CO – Ugur Ulupinar, age 37, of Telluride, Colorado, pled guilty in Durango before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. West to filing false claims with the IRS, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert R. Garza announced. Ulupinar is scheduled to be sentenced on October 13, 2015 at 9:00 am. Ulupinar waived his right to be...
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( 05-07-2015 - CO)

Charles Smith and Michael Smith, Petitioners/Cross-Respondents, v. Ronald Zufelt and Katherine Zufelt, as parents and next friends of Kory Zufelt, and Kory Zufelt, Respondents/Cross-Petitioners.
[1] In this case we are called upon to decide the appropriate amount of settlement proceeds, if any, that should be offset from a jury award when a plaintiff has both settled with a nonparty and successfully litigated claims for the same injury against nonsettling defendants. After a jury verdict for plaintiff, the trial court reduced the jury award by deducting an amount based on the fa...
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( 09-12-1994 - CO)

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