More than 30 years after a man was convicted of leaving pipe bombs throughout Grand Junction to kill 2 people, a judge says he has to be granted a new trial…
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The bombings started in 1989, when one device was found hidden at a hotel. That bomb didn’t go off. But in 1991, an explosive did injure 2 people at the Two Rivers Convention Center parking garage. Then, a 12-year-old girl died when a bomb under her family’s car went off. Another man died, when he picked up an explosive in the parking lot of a restaurant. Police arrested James Genrich (JEN-rich), charging him with the bombings. He claimed he was innocent. At trial, a prosecution expert told the jury that certain marks on the bombs could only have come from tools found at the suspect’s home. Thirty years later, a Mesa County judge has said the expert couldn’t possibly have known that. The court says such unreliable testimony violated Genrich’s constitutional rights. His case is due back in court at the end of this month.