A Colorado Springs woman who was convicted of killing her three children in March 2003, following a house fire, may have a chance at a new trial after an El Paso County Court found the prosecution at the time participated in Brady violations during the trial.
Deborah Nicholls and her husband at the time, Timothy Nicholls, were convicted of three counts of first-degree murder for intentionally starting the fire that killed their children. At the time of her case, the prosecution stated that Nicholls and her husband started the fire for insurance money to help fuel a meth addiction.
Since that time, the Korey Wise Innocence Project at the University of Colorado Law School took up Mrs. Nicholls ‘ case in an effort to exonerate her…