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Steamboat Today
By Matt Stensland
Steamboat Springs — Attorneys met with Judge Shelley Hill on Friday to discuss last minute details before a nine-day trial is set to begin Tuesday.
John Brothers Jr., has been charged with 16 felonies and a sentence enhancer that would extend his sentence if he is found guilty.
Brothers, a former preacher in Yampa and teacher at Heritage Christian School just west of Steamboat, is suspected of sexually assaulting one boy eight times throughout a six-week period. The boy and his father reported the incident in March 2012. Brothers was arrested the next month.
Brothers attended the hearing Friday with his parents and was being represented by Routt County Public Defender Sheryl Uhlmann. Matt Karzen and Eliot Thompson represented the District Attorney’s Office.
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