DENVER — A Denver man accused of killing his wife is tentatively scheduled to go on trial in April 2020 – more than two years after he was arrested and more than five years after her death.
Robert Feldman, 55, faces a single count of first-degree murder after deliberation in the March 1, 2015, death of his wife, Stacy Feldman.
His arraignment was delayed six times during a court fight over his access to approximately $550,000 in proceeds from Stacy Feldman’s life insurance policy – money the Colorado Supreme Court recently ruled Robert Feldman can use for his own defense.
The dispute forced Robert Feldman at one point to drop his private attorney and apply for a public defender – a move that was reversed Monday morning at a hearing before Denver District Judge Edward D. Bronfin.
Private attorneys David Kaplan and Jeffrey Pagliuca resumed their positions as Robert Feldman’s attorneys.
As a result, Bronfin scheduled arraignment for Oct. 21 and tentatively set a 10-day jury trial to begin April 20, 2020.
Robert Feldman called for help on March 1, 2015, saying that he’d found his wife unresponsive in a bathtub, according to court documents obtained by 9Wants to Know.
Stacy Feldman was pronounced dead a short time later.
The cause of Stacy Feldman’s death was originally classified as “undetermined.” However, an outside expert brought in by investigators and prosecutors concluded she'd been strangled or suffocated. That doctor found injuries to her upper extremities “consistent with knee pressure being applied from a straddled assailant.”
That conclusion prompted Robert Feldman’s arrest in February 2018, according to court documents.
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Stacy Feldman, a mother of two, had been president of the parent-teacher organization at Southmoor Elementary School in Denver and worked for PSC Partners Seeking a Cure, a non-profit organization that funds family support, treatments and the search for a cure for a liver condition called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.
Just hours before her husband reported finding her in the tub, she had been told he’d had an affair after meeting a woman on the dating app, Tinder, according to court documents.
Despite ongoing investigation through 2016, it wasn’t until late 2017 that an outside expert reviewed the autopsy report, toxicology tests and photographs and concluded that Stacy Feldman was murdered.
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