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Showing Original Post only (View all)Man imprisoned for 28 YEARS after woman dreamed that he raped her to be freed [View all]
Man imprisoned for 28 YEARS after woman dreamed that he raped her to be freed after another man confesses
A man imprisoned for 28 years after a woman said she dreamed that he raped her could be freed after a Denver judge overturned his conviction, saying he would likely be acquitted at a new trial because someone else confessed to the crime.
Clarence Moses-EL was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to 48 years in prison for raping and assaulting a woman when she returned home from a night of drinking. When police initially asked who attacked her, she named the man who later confessed.
More than a day after the assault, while in the hospital, the woman identified Moses-EL as her attacker, saying his face came to her in a dream.
Moses-EL has long claimed he was innocent. But his efforts to appeal his conviction were unsuccessful, in part because Denver police threw away DNA evidence from the attack. Police destroyed body swabs and the victim's clothing despite a judge's order to preserve it for testing that could have confirmed Moses-EL's guilt or innocence.
How fucked up is this?
A man imprisoned for 28 years after a woman said she dreamed that he raped her could be freed after a Denver judge overturned his conviction, saying he would likely be acquitted at a new trial because someone else confessed to the crime.
Clarence Moses-EL was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to 48 years in prison for raping and assaulting a woman when she returned home from a night of drinking. When police initially asked who attacked her, she named the man who later confessed.
More than a day after the assault, while in the hospital, the woman identified Moses-EL as her attacker, saying his face came to her in a dream.
Moses-EL has long claimed he was innocent. But his efforts to appeal his conviction were unsuccessful, in part because Denver police threw away DNA evidence from the attack. Police destroyed body swabs and the victim's clothing despite a judge's order to preserve it for testing that could have confirmed Moses-EL's guilt or innocence.
How fucked up is this?
So, let me get this right.
1: Woman gets drunk.
2: Woman gets raped.
3: Woman has dream about attacker.
4: DNA evidence is thrown out.
5: Man loses 28 years of his life.
6: Man is actually innocent.
7: Instead of being freed, Colorado decides to retry him for a crime he didn't commit.
Am I the only one who sees a major fucking problem here?
I hope he sues the pants off everyone involved, even the victim, who clearly lied!
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Feeling the Bern
Apr 2016
OP
considering the percentage of rapes that actually end in a conviction of ANY kind
Skittles
Apr 2016
#3
I don't know about the others involved, but somehow I doubt the jury was black.
ohnoyoudidnt
Apr 2016
#25
It's fun to pretend as much... regardless of how absurd the pretension may be.
LanternWaste
Apr 2016
#20
Which is relevant to why she gave 3 names to identify who might have raped her
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2016
#17