United States v. Kalani
May 04, 2012OUTCOME: Complete acquittal
Medicare fraud case
Denver, CO
Criminal defense Lawyer at Denver, CO
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI ... +4 more
OUTCOME: Complete acquittal
Medicare fraud case
OUTCOME: Acquittal
Murder case in Eagle County
OUTCOME: $500,000 verdict
Police shooting case
OUTCOME: Acquitted after 9 days of deliberations.
The United Bank Murder case, one of the most high-profile trials in Colorado legal history, tried in 1992 after the Father's Day Massacre on June 16, 1991, in which a lone gunman murdered four bank gua ... rds and made off with close to $200.000, a prosecution based on substantial circumstantial evidence and 6 eyewitness identifications of King, a former DPD officer and one-time United bank guard. This was the first non-celebrity trial broadcast from gavel-to-gavel nationwide on the then-fledgling Court TV Network.
OUTCOME: $930,000 verdict for Wrongful Death
The Espinoza case, arising out of the 1977 shooting of Arthur Espinoza in Curtis Park, changed the face of police shooting litigation in Colorado. Previously, the heirs of an individual wrongly shot t ... o death by the police was restricted to economic damages only. In Espinoza, a case lasting 14 years, I convinced the Colorado Supreme Court to overrule one of its own then-recent decisions, Jones v. Hildebrand, which was later affirmed by the United States supreme Court. I then tried the case and obtained a very favorable verdict on difficult facts: Espinoza had himself shot another man earlier that day, and was armed just before his death.
OUTCOME: Acquittal
James King, a retired Denver police officer, was charged with 4 counts of First Degree Murder, after 5 eyewitnesses identified him as the perpetrator of a daring daylight bank robbery on Father's Day, ... 1991 (June 16, 1991). The case was televised gavel-to-gavel on Court TV. Despite the eyewitness testimony and damning circumstantial evidence, the jury acquitted King of all charges, after 9 days of deliberation.