Judge Denies New Trial For Convicted Killer Harold Henthorn

By Brian Maass, CBS Denver:

(CBS4)– A federal judge on Thursday denied convicted wife-killer Harold Henthorn a new trial, after Henthorn claimed his trial attorney “acted in his own self-interest, was dishonest” and committed fraud in the course of defending Henthorn.

Judge Brooke Jackson rejected Henthorn’s arguments saying one of Henthorn’s arguments ‘lacks any semblance of merit’. Jackson, who presided over Henthorn’s federal murder trial, said Henthorn’s trial attorney, Craig Truman, ‘did extensive preparation’ and made ‘strategic choices.. not poor preparation’.

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