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   > max headroom wrote   
   >   
   >> All Democrats have brain tumors.  They sit on them.   
      
   ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A former social worker charged with falsely   
   accusing an Aurora city councilwoman of child abuse saw her criminal case   
   take a dramatic turn Monday when her attorneys quit amid allegations that   
   she faked a brain tumor diagnosis.   
      
   Now Robin Niceta, 41, could face additional criminal charges -- and the   
   attorneys involved in the case could also suffer repercussions -- after a   
   motion filed by her lawyers March 31 that requested an evaluation to   
   determine if she was incompetent to stand trial. That motion and medical   
   records attached to it remain sealed, but statements in court and a filing   
   by the special prosecutor in the case showed that it included documents   
   purported to show that Niceta had brain cancer that was very likely   
   terminal.   
      
   If Niceta had been evaluated, and found incompetent, the ramifications   
   could have included dismissal of the charges.   
      
   In the wake of the new disclosures, Arapahoe County District Court Judge   
   David Karpel said the trial would go on as scheduled on Aug. 1.   
      
   “The court is gravely concerned," Karpel said during the hearing. "I’m   
   gravely concerned about the veracity of a number of the statements that   
   were made in the defense’s motion seeking incompetency.”   
      
   Those concerns led Karpel to order Niceta to appear in person for the   
   hearing.   
      
   Niceta, 41, faces a felony charge of attempting to influence a public   
   servant and a separate misdemeanor count of filing a false child abuse   
   report.   
      
   According to court documents, the criminal case involving Niceta began in   
   January 2022, when an anonymous phone tip called into the Arapahoe County   
   Department of Human Services suggested that Aurora City Councilwoman   
   Danielle Jurinsky may have sexually abused her young son. Case workers   
   investigated but found that Jurinsky did nothing wrong and closed the   
   case.   
      
   At the same time, according to court documents, the anonymous call was   
   traced to Niceta, then the partner of former Aurora Police Chief Vanessa   
   Wilson. She was accused of making the call the day after Jurinsky   
   criticized Wilson while speaking on a podcast, calling her “trash,”   
   according to court documents.   
      
   The criminal case against Niceta was working its way through the court   
   when her attorneys filed two motions – one on March 24 to delay her trial   
   and one on March 31 seeking an evaluation of whether she was incompetent.   
   Other court documents make it clear that Niceta’s attorneys provided   
   medical records purported to show that she had been diagnosed with   
   glioblastoma, the most aggressive and common type of brain cancer and one   
   that is usually deadly.   
      
   Daniel Cohen, a chief deputy district attorney from Denver who is acting   
   as special prosecutor in the case, asserted in a court filing that MRI   
   images purported to show Niceta's brain tumor could be found on the   
   internet with a simple search -- and that the doctor and clinic listed in   
   medical records filed with the court appear not to exist.   
      
   He also suggested that Niceta's own attorneys were hoodwinked.   
      
   “It is the people’s earnest belief that the information below was just as   
   new and surprising to the defense counsel as it was to the people,” Cohen   
   wrote in a motion filed last week.   
      
   In court Monday, he also told the judge that he did not believe defense   
   attorneys Marci LaBranche and John Graham "provided me with anything that   
   was knowingly false.”   
      
   But Judge Karpel pointed out that some of the records submitted to the   
   court by the defense suggested that Niceta had suffered cognitive decline   
   after a 2021 assault and then experienced a brain aneurysm in February   
   2022 that left her "essentially non-verbal." But there was a problem,   
   Karpel said: Among the items submitted to the court was a videotaped   
   interview with Niceta done on May 3, 2022.   
      
   “In that interview, Miss Niceta was quite verbal,” the judge said.   
      
   Karpel told the attorneys he had to make a determination as to whether the   
   lawyers should face an inquiry into a potential violation of one of the   
      
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