Trial over death at Colorado strip club delayed after key lawyer dies there too – By Ramon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian) / Oct 26, 2022
Steve Long, defending Shotgun Willie’s over death of Randall Wright in 2019, found dead after evening at club earlier this month
A trial centering on the death of a retail company executive at a Colorado strip club in 2019 has been delayed after a lawyer defending the club died there too.
Steve Long was defending the strip club, Shotgun Willie’s in Glendale, in a lawsuit alleging it was liable for the death of Randall Wright, a customer, three years ago. The case was supposed to go to trial on 7 November.
But after Long died at Shotgun Willie’s on 1 October, his colleagues asked for a postponement, according to BusinessDen and the Denver Post.
Listening to arguments for four hours, the presiding judge, Peter Michaelson, reportedly sighed, cradled his head in his hands and rubbed his face as he listened to a chain of events unlikely to have much precedent in American jurisprudence.
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