The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the conviction of a Colorado Springs woman who was found guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, in January 2020.
The three-judge panel reversed Letecia Stauch’s 2023 conviction and ordered a retrial over a biased juror her attorneys were unable to dismiss and deliberated on the case, Judge Neeti Pawar wrote in a 54-page ruling.
The juror said his son-in-law worked as a deputy district attorney in the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in El Paso County, which prosecuted the case, according to the ruling…