Prosecutors Say Man Hit Process Server More Than 20 Times With Bat
DENVER -- Jurors returned a guilty verdict late Monday afternoon in the case of man accused of beating a process server to death with a baseball bat.
The jurors started deliberating Friday and continued Monday morning.
Forty-six-year-old James Whitler was charged with first-degree murder in the death of 57-year-old Stephen Allen.
Prosecutors said Whitler beat Allen with a baseball bat 20 times after Whitler delivered divorce papers.
Whitler's defense attorney Eric Vanatta said his client's actions were not premeditated and that he snapped amid a "hurricane of emotions" when Allen served him divorce papers at his Loveland home last year.
But prosecutors say Whitler had plenty of time to think about what he was doing.
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Jury Rules Man Guilty In Process Server Slaying
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