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- Title: People V. Coit
- Author : Colorado Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 28, 1997
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Defendant, Jill Coit, appeals the judgment of conviction entered upon jury verdicts finding her guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder. We affirm. Defendant was embroiled in a bitter civil suit against her ex-husband, who was the victim in this case. The lawsuit arose over the victim's claimed interest in a bed and breakfast in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, which defendant owned with a son by a previous marriage. Defendant apparently had given the victim a fraudulent deed of trust encumbering the property in order to avoid execution of a judgment obtained in a divorce proceeding by one of her former husbands. After defendant filed the civil action against the victim seeking a release of the deed of trust, the victim counterclaimed for intentional infliction of emotional distress and outrageous conduct. The counterclaim alleged, among other things, that defendant had falsely asserted she had given birth to a child fathered by the victim. The victim's murder occurred in Steamboat Springs one week before the civil trial was to begin. Approximately one month later, defendant was arrested and charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder along with a co-defendant with whom she had a personal relationship. The two cases were joined and, following the filing of both defendants' motions for change of venue, the place of trial was changed from Routt County to Grand County. A six-week trial resulted in the convictions here at issue.