Re: Nov. 6 news story.
I was appalled to hear of the existence of a “vacated conviction,” which apparently stands in the same relationship to acquittal that divorce has with annulment.
To retry a man who has already undergone 28years of imprisonment, and not regard this as “twice being put in jeopardy of life and limb” by a judicial technicality, is a legal fiction that Gilbert and Sullivan might write about, if it weren’t so dead depressing.
Pressure on District Attorney Mitch Morrissey for retrying this one case is not enough. It simply should not be possible for a defendant, imprisoned and subsequently cleared, to be retried for the same crime, whatever legal umbrella the ruling may go under.
Olivia Segal, Denver
It seems to me that, after 28 years in prison, if Clarence Moses-ELhas been on good behavior, this case needs to rest. He has already been punished.
Marian White,Englewood
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