Halaby said attorneys also are still waiting for a judge to rule on a request by the defense to dismiss the case. The defense successfully delayed the case for several months after Arndt filed the lawsuit in May 1998. The city's attorneys cited the need to protect information related to the ongoing grand jury investigation of the Ramsey slaying. The stay on Arndt's case was lifted in June, four months before the grand jury concluded. The grand jury concluded in October without issuing an indictment.
Police say the case is still active.
In Arndt's claims against Beckner, she alleges the damage he caused came in April, when she retired from the Boulder Police Department feeling she could no longer work with her colleagues because of her damaged reputation. She alleges that Beckner, like Koby, could have cleared up the misinformation regarding her investigation but chose not to. Arndt's attorneys claim that letter demonstrates that the Police Department felt that criticism and misconceptions should be publicly corrected but that the department still never addressed the criticism directed at Arndt. Defense attorneys argue that any claim against Beckner should have been made within a year of filing the lawsuit. Arndt's attorneys cited a different law that gives them a two-year timetable.