The 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office has filed a motion asking the Colorado Supreme Court to review the ordering of a new trial for a man convicted of two murders in 1993.

James Genrich, 62, is serving a life sentence in the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Buena Vista after he was convicted of setting pipe bombs that killed Maria Delores Gonzales and Henry Ruble in a series of pipe bombings that lasted from 1989 to 1991.

Genrich was granted a new trial by Judge Richard Gurley in 2023 after Gurley found tool mark evidence used to connect Genrich to the bombs was faulty.

During Genrich’s trial, ATF agent John O’Neil testified that tool marks on wires recovered from an unexploded pipe bomb matched pliers and wire cutters owned by Genrich to the exclusion of all other tools

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