BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case in which a convicted murderer's death sentence was overturned because jurors went beyond the evidence and consulted a Bible during deliberations.
Robert Harlan, who was convicted in the 1994 killing of cocktail waitress Rhonda Maloney, is serving a life sentence since the Colorado Supreme Court in March agreed with a lower court's ruling that the jury's action was improper.
Adams County prosecutors hope to reverse the state court's ruling.
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"I agree with the jury that he deserves the death sentence," District Attorney Don Quick said in a statement Friday.