Walter Gerash, a larger-than-life defense lawyer who earned national headlines by taking on some of Colorado’s most notorious criminal cases in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, died Sunday. He was 96.
Gerash’s clients included the ex-cop accused of killing four Denver bank security guards in the infamous “Father’s Day Massacre,” a heavyweight boxer charged with murder, the singer John Denver in his Aspen DUI case, and a Littleton 19-year-old with multiple personality disorder who was accused of executing his parents.
“If he felt that someone’s rights were being violated by the government or the government was overreaching, Walter was the first one to step in and fight back on it,” said Anthony DiVirgilio, a private investigator who worked on cases with Gerash. “He was a fighter.”He is survived by his sons Dan and Doug Gerash; two grandchildren, Halle Gerash, 26, and Will Gerash, 21; and a brother, Jerry Gerash, who was a well-known activist for gay and lesbian rights in the 1970s in Denver.
He began law school at UCLA but left under circumstances that remain unclear to this day, Dan Gerash said. His father was under investigation for his communist ideas or his grades were poor. The lawyers argued for an insanity defense because Carlson had multiple personality disorder, displaying 10 different characters, including a dark and menacing man named “Black,” Savitz said. Carlson also developed a personality while inside a state mental hospital named “Holden,” which stood for “holding it together.”
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