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From a death penalty case to a near acquittal, the second trial for a man accused of murder in the 2017 execution-style shootings of two Colorado Springs teenagers is set
A jury forewoman offered a blunt assessment of prosecutors’ more than four-month effort to prove their case against a man accused of murder in the 2017 execution-style shootings of two Colorado Springs teenagers, a judge said Thursday.
“The jury felt that much of their time was wasted by the prosecution,” 4th Judicial District Judge David A. Shakes said at a hearing to schedule a new trial for Marco Garcia-Bravo. The judge said the forewoman requested that he convey that message “at the very beginning” of her comments to him at the trial’s conclusion.
Jury selection for a new trial was scheduled to begin April 7, and the judge set opening statements for April 19.
The names Natalie and Derek are carved into two crosses at the scene of a double murder on Old Pueblo Rd. About 70 solar lights light up the location where Coronado High School students Natalie Partida and Derek Greer were shot repeatedly execution style on March 11, 2017. The photo was taken in March 2018. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
JERILEE BENNETT THE GAZETTE