By Monte Whaley - The Denver Post - 06/08/2009
James Whitler is charged with killing a process server who came to serve him with divorce papers May 28, 2008
FORT COLLINS — A man who brutally beat a process server to death in May 2008 and then tried to kill his two young children was sentenced to life in prison today without possibility of parole after being called heartless and a monster by the victim's friends and family.
James Whitler also was sentenced to two consecutive 24-year-sentences for the attempted murder of his son, 11, and daughter, 13.
Larimer District Judge Daniel Kaup told Whitler he could have merely accepted the divorce papers from Stephen Allen on May 28, 200,8 and moved on with his life. But instead, Whitler beat Allen to death with a baseball bat and then tried to stab his daughter and strangle both children unconscious.
"This didn't have to end this way," Kaup told Whitler before passing sentence.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
One witness and defense rests in Whitler's murder trial
Jury to get instructions Friday
BY NATE TAYLOR • NateTaylor@coloradoan.com • May 7, 2009
Defense attorneys Wednesday afternoon called just one witness on behalf of James Whitler before resting their case in the Loveland man's murder trial.
The one witness was Pam Buffington, an investigator with the Fort Collins public defender's office who explained about 15 photos depicting Whitler's injuries two days after he allegedly beat process server Stephen Allen to death with a T-ball bat and then allegedly strangled his two children. Allen died after serving divorce papers and a temporary restraining order to Whitler.
Attorneys and Judge Dan Kaup will meet today to argue about and create jury instructions, which will be read to jurors Friday just before closing arguments.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating the evidence Friday.
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One witness and defense rests in Whitler's murder trial
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BY NATE TAYLOR • NateTaylor@coloradoan.com • May 7, 2009
Defense attorneys Wednesday afternoon called just one witness on behalf of James Whitler before resting their case in the Loveland man's murder trial.
The one witness was Pam Buffington, an investigator with the Fort Collins public defender's office who explained about 15 photos depicting Whitler's injuries two days after he allegedly beat process server Stephen Allen to death with a T-ball bat and then allegedly strangled his two children. Allen died after serving divorce papers and a temporary restraining order to Whitler.
Attorneys and Judge Dan Kaup will meet today to argue about and create jury instructions, which will be read to jurors Friday just before closing arguments.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating the evidence Friday.
Read the rest of the story:
One witness and defense rests in Whitler's murder trial
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Murdered Process Server's Family Wants New Law
Mike Hooker - FORT COLLINS, Colo. March 4, 2009
The family of a process server murdered on the job says it's time to protect others in the profession, so they want a new law on the books.
Police say the server, Steve Allen, 57, was attacked and killed with a knife and a baseball bat last summer after going to a home in Loveland to serve divorce papers to James Whitler.
Allen's niece, Jen Castaneda, was at the Larimer County Justice Center for a motions hearing in the murder case Wednesday afternoon.
"What's surprisingly difficult is knowing it's your own family member who went through the terror," Castaneda said.
"You have all these things that go through your mind, like what was he thinking, how terrified he must have been. It was not a quick thing he went through that day," Castaneda said...
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Murdered Process Server's Family Wants New Law
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The family of a process server murdered on the job says it's time to protect others in the profession, so they want a new law on the books.
Police say the server, Steve Allen, 57, was attacked and killed with a knife and a baseball bat last summer after going to a home in Loveland to serve divorce papers to James Whitler.
Allen's niece, Jen Castaneda, was at the Larimer County Justice Center for a motions hearing in the murder case Wednesday afternoon.
"What's surprisingly difficult is knowing it's your own family member who went through the terror," Castaneda said.
"You have all these things that go through your mind, like what was he thinking, how terrified he must have been. It was not a quick thing he went through that day," Castaneda said...
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Murdered Process Server's Family Wants New Law
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