Biography
James Marshall was sentenced on December 7, 2021 by Judge Gilbert Martinez to eleven years after pleading guilty to tampering with a deceased human body in a negotiated resolution of the June 2020 Alamosa protest shooting of Danny Pruitt. Pruitt survived; the parties waived a factual basis for the tampering plea. The original attempted-murder, assault and reckless-endangerment counts were dismissed. Marshall was taken into custody immediately after sentencing and received credit for two earlier days in jail. Those earlier days and the later prison admission are distinct; the article describes his intervening freedom. The eleven-year sentence and discussion of possible service of half that term are not an actual release date or a completed served total. Source: https://alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/valley/files/20240412-145409-35d599e0ad81d40c6bdd3fac2b248f6e.zip~12-8-21%20Pages%201-14.pdf#page=1
Source-document clarification
The Colorado disciplinary court’s April 4, 2022 case summary records that James Edward Marshall IV pleaded guilty on August 30, 2021 to an amended count of tampering with a deceased human body, a class-three felony. The professional sanction was a three-year law-license suspension effective April 4, 2022, not three years of imprisonment. This disciplinary summary does not establish an actual prison-admission or release date.
