WEEK OF JULY 18, 2024
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Re-trial for Andrew Buen murder charge in Christian Glass case continued to February 2025 BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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Despite what prosecutors called “strong objections” from Christian Glass’s family, Colorado 5th Circuit Judge Catherine Cheroutes granted Andrew Buen’s lead defense attorney Carrie Slinkard’s motion for a continuance in Buen’s re-trial until February 2025. An online conference between prosecutors and defense attorneys took place July 11 when Cheroutes granted the continuance. Buen was in court July 8 for a motions hearing ahead of his scheduled re-trial when Slinkard asked Cheroutes for a continuance due to “child care issues” for her 11-year-old, as her husband is scheduled out of town during the originally scheduled Aug. 12 retrial date. After eight days of testimony and two-and-a-half days of deliberation during the April trial, a Clear Creek County jury found Buen guilty of reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, in the SEE TRIAL, P2
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