GREELEY, Colo. (AP) -- Weld County's chief judge will handle the case of a Fort Collins police officer indicted in another county on allegations that he lied in the investigation of a man whose murder conviction was overturned.
Judge James Hartmann will preside over the case of Lt. James Broderick because all of the district judges in Larimer County recused themselves from the case because two fellow judges may testify in the case.
Judges Jolene Blair and Terry Gilmore were prosecutors when they tried Timothy Masters in 1999 for the 1987 slaying of Peggy Hettrick.
Masters was released from prison in 2008 after tests showed the DNA at the crime scene did not belong to him.
Broderick faces eight counts of first-degree perjury for his role in Masters' prosecution.
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