A Case of Grave Injustice

Lisl Auman met Matthaeus Jaehnig just that morning. By the end of the day, both he and a police officer were dead –and her life was over.

Lisl Auman was handcuffed and in police custody at the time of the crime, yet under the felony-murder rule , inherited from and long since abandoned by England, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Last summer, she lost her bid to the Colorado Court of Appeals to reverse the conviction. Thursday, January 15, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in her case. The issue before Colorado’s highest court will be whether Lisl’s arrest by police precluded her liability for felony murder.

Hunter worked hard for to publicize her plight in an effort to secure a new trial for her. Read his words, they are pure Hunter.

The Colorado Supreme Court did order a new trial. A plea agreement was reached last month,which required the approval of the Denver Community Corrections Board. The approval came today. On Monday, absent something going unexpectedly awry, Lisl will moved to a half-way house for about six months, and then she will allowed to live on her own until her new sentence is up.