DENVER — The three Denver police officers who shot at a man with a gun in Lower Downtown — wounding him and six bystanders — should not be forced to testify at the man’s preliminary hearing, the officers’ attorney argued Wednesday.
The preliminary hearing for Jordan Waddy, 21, was delayed in Denver County Court on Wednesday after the three officers, Megan Lieberson, Brandon Ramos and Kenneth Rowland, did not show up. Their attorney, John Davis, said the officers were not properly served subpoenas from the Colorado Public Defender’s Office and did not know about the hearing date or their legal obligation to attend.
Waddy’s public defenders said in court that they’d followed the normal procedure for subpoenaing Denver police officers and had taken extra steps to be sure the officers were notified of the obligation to testify.
