Is The Colorado Supreme Court Really Crooked Or Just Really High??
A Denver man accused of killing his wife can use more than $500,000 received from her life insurance policy to pay for the lawyers defending him against the murder charge, Colorado’s highest court ruled on Monday.
The opinion by the Colorado Supreme Court overturned a probate judge’s ruling that Robert Feldman, 55, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2015 slaying of his wife, Stacy, was not entitled to the insurance proceeds because of the state’s ‘slayer statute.’
That law bars anyone from gaining any financial benefit from another’s estate if they are held criminally responsible for causing the death.
However, the higher court ruled that the statute does not to apply to a third party – in this case a legal defense team – that is paid for a ‘legally enforceable obligation.’
Criminal charges were not filed until nearly three years after the woman’s death, by which time Robert Feldman had been paid $751,910 as the sole beneficiary of his wife’s life insurance policy.
Do politics include the court system? Because KMarko has told me time and time again to stay away from politics, but he’s busy today so it’s a FREE BLOG DAY for me here in Ohio. No rules. And I’m feeling a tad bit ornery. So what do you guys wanna see? Boobs? I can find you some boobs. But first, let me talk about this BULLSHIT that the Colorado Supreme Court is pulling.
So if I understand this story correctly, this dude killed his wife in 2015, and he collected the $750,000 in life insurance. Not a bad little payday…..but he’s also now labeled a murderer. Classic give and take. Anyways, the investigation went on and the charges weren’t filed for three years, so he has just been balling out with three quarters of a million dollars since 2015. Well now it appears to be pretty clear that he was the one who killed his wife, so a probate judge ruled that the money he collected should be given back. You know, you don’t get the life insurance when you’re the one who killed the policy holder. In legal jargon, we call this the “Slayer Statute”.
In my professional opinion, that should be the end of the story. But I guess I forgot that Lee Corso was on the Colorado Supreme Court, because when they heard the case, they said:
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that he can use that money to pay his lawyers. Colorado is damn near 1,300 miles away, and I have a stuffy nose right now, but even I can smell that this whole thing is FISHY. I would like names and family trees of everyone on the court, as well as everyone in the law firm. Someone is getting paid.
I’ve said it time and time again: we do not need courts. Laws are stupid. Lawyers are the worst. Let the fine people at Buffalo Wild Wings decide every court case, instant replay review, etc. If you pitched this case to a packed house of sports fans drinking beer, 100% of the people…..men, women, black, white, gay, straight…..are going to say that the murderer shouldn’t get $750,000 for killing his wife. But the crooked Colorado Supreme Court did. Maybe they’re high?