Attorney Scott Jurdem's Legal Cases

Criminal defense

Arapahoe County 68 count sex assault

Sep 25, 2012

OUTCOME: Dismissed all charges

On September 25, 2012 a firm client facing life in prison for alleged sex offenses was completely exonerated. With trial underway and the jury selected, the Arapahoe County District Attorney dismissed ... 66 counts charging Sex Assault on a Child (pattern) and Aggravated Incest against a firm client that had been falsely accused by his step daughter. Forty-four of the charges resulting from a Grand Jury Indictment carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison as a sex offender had the client been convicted. Our firm represented this client for 14 months through many difficult preliminary proceedings. Jury trial, which had been continued twice, commenced on September 21, 2012. All of the charges were dismissed on September 25,2012 and the client, completely exonerated, walked out of the courtroom a free man.

Criminal defense

Domestic Violence Mandatory Prison

Mar 30, 2012

OUTCOME: Dismissed all charges

On March 30, 2012, a firm client facing a mandatory prison sentence for domestic violence related charges was completely exonerated. With a jury trial imminent, the Boulder District Attorney dismissed ... all charges against a Boulder woman charged with domestic violence. The felony charges involved Retaliation Against a Victim/Witness, Harassment and Violation of Bond Conditions and carried a mandatory sentence to prison upon conviction. Our firm represented this client for 11 months through a difficult preliminary hearing and related pre-trial proceedings. No reasonable settlement offers were made by the prosecutor and we were preparing for trial when the Boulder DA dismissed this case in its entirety.

Personal injury

Plaintiff RC v. O. On December 8, 2011

Dec 08, 2011

OUTCOME: Jury awarded a judgment in Jefferson County $940,483 plus interest

Seven year old boy who sued through his parents for injuries he sustained in a collision on April 4, 2007. The final State Farm offer before trial was only $127, 681.90.

Criminal defense

August 2010 Summit County

N/A

OUTCOME: Not Guilty

Most recently in August, 2010, Mr. Jurdem and attorney Lisa Wayne, President Elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, represented a young man facing mandatory life in prison as an ... alleged sex offender for unlawful sexual contact by force. After the close of evidence in the Breckenridge Colorado trial, the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty" on all counts after only 20 minutes of deliberations.

Personal injury

March 5, 2009 Auto Accident Personal Injury

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OUTCOME: Jury verdict $2,602,294.90

Mr. Jurdem, having rejected a $300,000 settlement offer, obtained a personal injury verdict in an automobile/truck accident case for his seriously injured client from a Fort Collins, Colorado jury valu ... ed at $2,602,294.90. This verdict was recently affirmed by a unanimous panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals and is valued at $2,700,000. The interest continues to accrue at the 2010 rate of $214.49/day. (The separate Cost Judgment, of $25,742.31, was also upheld by the Appellate Court.)

Scott Jurdem's Legal Cases (5)

Arapahoe County 68 count sex assault

Domestic Violence Mandatory Prison

Plaintiff RC v. O. On December 8, 2011

August 2010 Summit County

March 5, 2009 Auto Accident Personal Injury