COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — An El Paso County woman who was found guilty of murdering her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, has had her conviction reversed by the Colorado Court of Appeals.
According to court records, Letecia Stauch appealed her conviction, arguing, in part, that the trial court erred by denying her challenge to a biased juror whose son-in-law worked in the same office that was prosecuting her case.
The Colorado Court of Appeals found that the judge’s failure to dismiss the biased juror was a structural error and therefore required that Stauch be given a new trial…