FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- Two judges who were censured for their former work as prosecutors in a botched murder case are up for retention elections this fall.
Voters will decide in November whether Larimer County District Judges Jolene Blair and Terry Gilmore should each serve another six-year term.
The state Supreme Court censured them in 2008, saying that when they were prosecutors, they failed to turn over information to attorneys for defendant Timothy Masters in a first-degree murder trial.
Masters was found guilty and spent 10 years in prison before the conviction was overturned based on DNA evidence.
Larimer County agreed to pay Masters $4.1 million to settle his lawsuit alleging detectives and prosecutors maliciously targeted him.
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