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04_15_25_Headlines Gabrielle Mendoza
Michael Clark Released
A man convicted of first-degree murder went home with his family last night after spending over 12 years in prison and being transferred to Boulder County Jail.
49-year-old Michael Clark left the jail last night shortly after 8 pm. Clark was convicted of the 1994 murder of Boulder city employee Marty Grisham. That conviction, which didn’t happen until 2012, was vacated Friday. It was the first conviction overturned after revelations that a Colorado Bureau of Investigations scientist manipulated DNA testing in more than a thousand cases, according to The Daily Camera.
That scientist, Yvonne “Missy” Woods, faces more than a hundred charges stemming from the scandal.
Michael Clark’s attorney said Clark is thrilled to be out of custody. He was released on a $100 thousand dollar bond. Although he was not convicted until 2012, The Camera says he was a suspect in the murder right away.
Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty is expected to announce this June whether he will retry Clark for Marty Grisham’s murder.
Buen Sentenced
A former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to three years in prison for shooting and killing a Boulder man nearly three years ago.
Andrew Buen was first convicted in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass this past February.
22-year-old Glass, called 911 for help when his car got stuck in Clear Creek County. Seven law enforcement officers responded to the call and spent more than an hour trying to coax Glass out of the car. Glass was, at the time, experiencing a mental health crisis.
Then-deputy Buen eventually decided to break Glass’ window and pull him from the vehicle, at which point Glass grabbed a knife. Officers fired a Taser and shot him with beanbags. Glass twisted in the driver’s seat and thrust a knife toward an officer standing next to the shattered window behind him.
Buen shot Glass five times. Glass then stabbed himself several times.
During Buen’s Monday’s hearing, Clear Creek County District Court Judge gave him the maximum possible sentence: three years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the homicide charge and 120 days in jail for the reckless endangerment charge.
In court, the judge said the killing was “about power,” and that it “wasn’t a mistake.”
Andrew Buen’s supervisor, who gave permission to break into Glass’s car, pleaded guilty to failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer in 2023 and was sentenced to two years of probation.
Four additional law enforcement officers face charges of failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer. Their criminal cases are pending.
A separate grand jury investigation into the incident in 2022 found Glass committed no crime, had acted in panic and self-defense before he was killed, and didn’t come close to stabbing the officers. The involved law enforcement agencies agreed to a $19 million settlement with Glass’ parents in May.
That’s all according to reporting by The Denver Post.
Neguse-Bennet Boulder Town Hall
U.S. Representative Joe Neguse is telling his constituents not to lose hope, in the midst of what he called the dangerous and unconstitutional actions of the Trump administration.
Representative Neguse appeared with Colorado Senator Michael Bennet at a Town Hall on the CU-Boulder campus last Saturday. The two said it was important for people to stay engaged, and to not lose hope.
Neguse said that opposing Trump requires a combination of legislative steps, litigation strategies, and citizens making their voices heard.
Senator Bennet, in his first public appearance since announcing his candidacy for Colorado governor, said that it’s important to build a coalition of people who will stand up for the rule of law, and for the country’s heritage as a nation of immigrants.
That’s all according to Boulder Reporting Lab.
Leader of Colorado Libertarian Party uses homophobic slurs
The head of the Libertarian Party of Colorado repeatedly directed anti-gay slurs at a man via Facebook, after he criticized the party’s social media presence.
Party chairwoman Hannah Goodman sent the slurs Friday via private message. The man, wishes to remain anonymous for his safety, privately messaged the party’s Facebook account to criticize what he saw as its “asinine” postings, and to mock the party’s lack of electoral success. Goodman replied by defending her party’s achievements and repeatedly referring to the commenter using an anti-gay slur.
She also repeatedly used a slur for people with intellectual disabilities in the interaction.
Goodman continued to use the slurs even after the man said he planned to take the messages to the media – which he eventually did. The messages were obtained by The Denver Post.
The chairwoman wrote via Facebook that “there is no such thing as bad press” and rejected the man’s request for an apology.
The commenter told The Post that he was taken aback by how “grossly homophobic” her responses were. He identifies as gay.
