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Colorado to pay Clarence Moses-EL $2M for the 28 years he...

Clarence Moses-EL, a Denver man who spent nearly half his life in prison on a wrongful rape and assault conviction, will be awarded about...

Attorney General-elect Weiser will seek settlement in Moses-EL’s $1.9M wrongful-conviction claim...

Colorado’s incoming attorney general says he hopes to settle a lawsuit filed by a Denver man who spent 28 years in prison on a...

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...

An evening with Clarence Moses-EL

ATTENTION news junkies, civil libertarians, and anyone familiar with the twisted case against Clarence Moses-EL, who spent 28 years behind bars on a wrongful...

GREENE: There’s nothing sweeter than an exoneration. And also nothing sadder.

Twenty-nine years, two months, and 28 days. That's how long it took Clarence Moses-EL to disentangle himself from a rape he didn’t commit, a 48-year...

GREENE: Jury finds Clarence Moses-EL not guilty

Update to "update": Susan Greene is working on a post-mortem of the Moses-EL case. Update: Nearly three decades after going to prison for a rape...

Cynthia Coffman and Mitch Morrissey sued over post-conviction reviews

Colorado’s Attorney General and Denver’s District Attorney are hiding records from a $2.6 million project to identify wrongful convictions, according to a lawsuit filed...

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...