DENVER (AP) - Lawyers for one of three men on Colorado’s death row allege are seeking a new trial because they allege a juror didn’t reveal that she had ties to several witnesses, a relative of a victim as well as the defendant’s family.
Sir Mario Owens was convicted in two different murder cases in Aurora - the shooting death of Gregory Vann in 2004 and the deaths of a witness to that shooting, Javad Marshall-Fields, and his fiancee, Vivian Wolfe, in 2005.
The juror participated in the first trial. Owens’ conviction in that case helped win a death sentence in the second.
The Denver Post (https://dpo.st/2mxka8o) reports a judge issued a warrant for the juror’s arrest on Feb. 17 after she failed to show up at a hearing to be questioned.
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Information from: The Denver Post, https://www.denverpost.com
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