Clarence Moses-EL, who was granted a new trial after spending 28 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction, was released from custody Dec. 22. Moses walks with his wife Stephanie Burke and step daughter Michelle. A judge set bond at $50,000 for Moses-EL, now 60, who was convicted of the 1987 sexual assault of a woman in Denver’s Five Point’s neighborhood. She had been beaten, dragged and raped, she told police. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
Re: “Clarence Moses-EL released after 28 years in prison,” Dec. 23 news story.
It is horrifying that Clarence Moses-EL served 28 years in prison for a crime another man admitted doing. I worked in the Boulder Police Department Detective Unit in the ’80s and heard about this case, in which the victim came up with Moses-EL’s name in a dream. Rape and battery is horrific, but no district attorney should ever base a case on such flimsy “evidence.”
Dixie J-Elder, Longmont
This letter was published in the Jan. 1 edition.
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