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- Yvonne “Missy” Woods pleaded guilty to four felonies in Jefferson County District Court and faces an eight-to-16-year term.
- The plea deal dismissed over 100 felony counts filed since January 2025.
- Investigators identified problems in 1,045 of Woods’ 10,786 cases, about ten percent of her workload.
- Colorado enacted a 2025 law to tighten forensic testing safeguards and fund an $11 million remediation that overturned a 1994 murder conviction.
