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‘I don’t believe you’: Judge, man argue during sentencing for orchestrating ‘horrific’ assaults
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‘I don’t believe you’: Judge, man argue during sentencing for orchestrating ‘horrific’ assaults

Colorado Springs Gazette·Cleo Westin [email protected]·about 1 month ago
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A man accused of orchestrating several nearly fatal assaults interrupted and argued with a 4th Judicial District judge as she sentenced him to 45 years in the Department of Corrections on Friday in an El Paso County courtroom. Shemor Mitchell, 37, and several other co-defendants are most notably accused of beating a man at his apartment, taking him against his will to the PopCycle Bridge, cutting and burning him before throwing him into the frozen river below. Two different individuals were co-defendants to Mitchell for allegedly sexually assaulting a homeless man with a broomstick. Judge Jessica Curtis described the “horrific” acts on the victims as the “most serious” non-fatal offenses she has presided over in her six years with a felony criminal docket. Before sentencing, Mitchell and his attorney, Kathryn Sheely, asked the judge for the minimum possible sentence under his plea agreement of 35 years.…

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