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Greene: Copout

Friday’s deadline came and went for Beth McCann to make things right in one of Colorado’s longest and most twisted injustices. In choosing to...

Greene: Beth McCann, Colorado’s newest innocence denier

Beth McCann won her seat as Denver District Attorney on a promise to restore public confidence in an office notorious for defending law enforcement...

Greene: Mitch Morrissey leaves his fingerprint

It was a year ago this week, and noon hour at the Brown Palace. Members of Denver’s City Club lunched on pork loins with...

Moses-EL case set for new trial with key evidence missing

The Denver District Attorney’s office is moving forward re-prosecuting Clarence Moses-EL for an attack to which another man has confessed. Mitch Morrissey’s chief deputy convinced...

Denver DA’s office argues it should stay on Moses-EL case

  Denver’s District Attorney Mitch Morrissey’s office is fighting an attempt to disqualify it from an innocence case in which it has been accused of...

“What was done in the dark”

“I really don’t know what to say to you,” began the letter, written in neat script on prison-issue loose leaf paper. “But let’s start by...

Dutch DNA duo helps free another innocent man

The Dutch scientists who helped exonerate Tim Masters have done it again. DNA experts Richard and Selma Eikelenboom found the evidence that freed David Camm, who was convicted of killing his wife and two kids in 2000.

LATEST UPDATE Justice Demands A Change In DNA Evidence Law

Saying that police and prosecutors have no "duty" to preserve DNA evidence in criminal cases is like saying they have no duty to seek...