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June 8, 2004
Contact:
Lynn Kimbrough, 720-913-9025
Woman charged with false
reporting*
Denver District Attorney Bill
Ritter, Jr. has formally charged a woman accused of making a
false report in a hit-and-run accident.
Marilyn Shelton
(DOB 08-08-68) is charged with attempt to influence a public
servant (F4) and false reporting (M3).
The charges allege that Shelton
reported a hit and run accident to police on May 19, 2004. She provided a
vehicle description, driver description and license plate number
for a vehicle that she claimed hit her car and took off.
Detectives later concluded that no such incident had taken
place.
Shelton will appear in Denver
County Court, room 12T, on June 17, 2004 at 9:00 a.m. to be
formally advised of the charges.
The presumptive range for
sentencing on a class 4 felony is up to six years in prison and
for a class 3 misdemeanor is up to six months in jail.
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*The
charges against
Marilyn Shelton were dismissed by the District Attorney's
Office in January 2005 based on the belief that the
charges could not be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable
doubt.
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