A man who has after being imprisoned for 28 years for a sexual assault he says he didn’t commit will soon be transferred back to Denver, a state prison spokeswoman said Thursday.
Clarence Moses-EL is currently being held in the Bent County Correctional Facility in southeastern Colorado. Colorado Department of Corrections spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said prison officials on Thursday received the judge’s order granting Moses-EL a new trial. She said the department would remand him to the custody of the Denver Sheriff Department in the next couple of days.
After returning to Denver, Moses-EL will be held in jail like any other defendant awaiting trial, and he could be released if he or someone else posts a $50,000 bond.
Moses-EL was convicted in the 1987 rape and beating of a woman in Denver. The woman at first identified other men as possible suspects, then later told police Moses-EL was her attacker, saying his identity .
A Denver District Court judge this week, after another man came forward to say he had consensual sex with — and also struck — the victim on the night of the reported attack. The Denver district attorney’s office has not yet decided whether it will now dismiss the case or go ahead with a new trial, at which they would have to prove Moses-EL’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
John Ingold: 303-954-1068, jingold@denverpost.com or @johningold
