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DNA Frees Colorado Man, Awaits Full Exoneration

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Tim Masters spent more than nine years in a Colorado prison before being released this week.  I'm posting this because of the must-read Denver Post column by Gail Schoettler, "We should be ashamed."Imagine losing 10 years of your life in a Colorado prison. Imagine suffering that terrible existence knowing you were innocent of the crime for which you'd been convicted. Imagine losing all those years because a prosecutor withheld evidence from your lawyers that might have exonerated you. Then imagine how we'd all feel if this person had been executed for the crime he did not commit. The case of Tim Masters makes me shudder. He was accused of murdering a Fort Collins woman when he was 15. Later, he was convicted of that crime because of his violent teenage writings and pictures...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).