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Greene: Clarence Moses-EL’s innocence ordeal nears its end

Susan Greene -
Finally. Finally, Clarence Moses-EL gets some measure of closure. Finally, Colorado’s justice system ends 32 years of elected officials seeing to it that whatever could go...
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Colorado to pay Clarence Moses-EL $2M for the 28 years he...

Alex Burness -
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...
Denver

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

Susan Greene -
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...
The Mix

An evening with Clarence Moses-EL

Staff Report -
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...
Civil Rights

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

Susan Greene -
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...
Civil Rights

GREENE: Jury finds Clarence Moses-EL not guilty

Susan Greene -
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...
Civil Rights

Editor’s view: BAD FAITH

Susan Greene -
The retrial of Clarence Moses-EL for a 1987 sex assault starts Nov. 7th in Denver District Court. Moses-EL, 60, served 28 years in prison before...
Criminal Justice

New law requires Colorado police to record interrogations

Susan Greene -
About one quarter of wrongful convictions stem from false confessions. We at The Independent have reported on several cases in Colorado and elsewhere in which...
Criminal Justice

Clarence Moses-EL free after 28 years in prison

Kyle Harris -
Clarence Moses-EL walked free for the first time in 28 years. “It’s time,” said his wife, Stephanie Burke, who was in tears in Gerdes’ courtroom...
Civil Rights

“We had no way of knowing what ‘right back’ would really...

Susan Greene -
  Anthony Burke was 3, riding on the handlebars of his dad’s bike. He remembers the wind and the speed, and the warmth of that...

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