The criminal case against former University of Colorado assistant coach Joe Tumpkin, who is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, is finally set to continue after a judge ruled that Tumpkin’s attorney’s should have access to the same cellphone records as the prosecution.
Tumpkin, 47, was charged with five counts of second-degree assault and three counts of third-degree assault in January 2017, but his case has been delayed for more than a year after his attorneys filed an appeal saying they were improperly denied access to cellphone records.
According to the appeal — which was originally filed with the state Supreme Court but ultimately ruled on in Broomfield District Court — Tumpkin’s ex-girlfriend Pam Fine voluntarily turned over her cellphone records to police as evidence in the case.