An Adams County judge did not make a mistake when he left jurors without a definition of "universal malice" — a phrase state law does not define and that no other state apparently uses in its own murder laws, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
Colorado law does not define "universal malice." No other state s murder laws mention universal malice. And an Adams County judge did not tell Cristobal Fernando Garcia s jury what universal malice meant.
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to review whether an Arapahoe County judge, who is now a justice on the state s highest court, correctly handled a potentially race-based dismissal of a