A Boulder County judge on Tuesday denied a request by a defense attorney in a 1994 murder case to see JonBenet Ramsey death investigation records that the attorney said could demonstrate that police at the time were “woefully incompetent,” according to court documents.
Prosecutors announced in September that Michael Clark, 50, would be prosecuted again in connection with the 1994 Boulder killing of Boulder city employee Marty Grisham after the previous murder conviction was overturned in April, in part because of faulty DNA evidence connected to a statewide scandal. The case is set for a May jury trial.
Adam Frank, Clark’s attorney, filed 12 subpoenas seeking records from the first 48 hours of the unsolved Ramsey investigation and information about CBI policies related to DNA testing this month.
Boulder District Court Chief Judge Nancy W. Salomone called the Ramsey records a “worm can” during a Tuesday hearing in the case. Salomone said that the records could unduly influence the jury with irrelevant evidence.
“The jury would, very likely, because of the degree of public exposure of that case, be very interested in information that it might gather about that homicide,” Salomone said. “The court doesn’t believe that … there’s much, if any relevant evidence.”
The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office had filed a motion to prevent all 12 subpoenas from being fulfilled.
This is a developing story.
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