Gramps
Mayor
Robert Dewey was set free yesterday after DNA evidence cleared him of a crime committed by another man who is presently in jail for a similar crime. Eighteen years down the tubes. Colorado has no recourse for him to collect any money for the mistake although someone is already at work trying to find or to create a way to re-imburse him.
Cases such as this are hard for me to swallow. We boast about the jury system, yet in this case they have also determined the evidence against Dewey was mostly circumstantial and at the time, while they had a seman sample from a blanket there was no means for tying it to him -- the very clue that has now overturned his conviction.
This is not the first case right here that has been recently overturned after the suspect was finally determined to be a victim. The McMasters case a couple of years back was similar.
The thought of this man being incarcerated for so long a time will bug me for quite awhile but not nearly as much as it will bug Dewey. He said he had a lot of catching up to do but he can never recover the loss he's already suffered.
Sad, indeed.
Gramps
Cases such as this are hard for me to swallow. We boast about the jury system, yet in this case they have also determined the evidence against Dewey was mostly circumstantial and at the time, while they had a seman sample from a blanket there was no means for tying it to him -- the very clue that has now overturned his conviction.
This is not the first case right here that has been recently overturned after the suspect was finally determined to be a victim. The McMasters case a couple of years back was similar.
The thought of this man being incarcerated for so long a time will bug me for quite awhile but not nearly as much as it will bug Dewey. He said he had a lot of catching up to do but he can never recover the loss he's already suffered.
Sad, indeed.
Gramps
