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The Aurora Sentinel editorial: No more excuses. Free Rene Lima-Marin from his unfair prison sentence now

By 05/01/2017 | updated 9 years ago

Everyone seems to agree — even politicians who almost never do — that Rene Lima-Marin shouldn’t be in prison, get him out of there.

A huge group of often combative and polarized Colorado legislators, who barely agree on what day of the week it is, have unanimously decided that wrongly imprisoned Lima-Marin should be freed.

So then why is this Aurora man still behind bars?

The entire state House of Representatives, a near split of Republicans and Democrats, voted last week to insist that Lima-Marin should be freed after having served more than eight years for two 1998 robberies he committed as a teenager.

Read more at The Aurora Sentinel.

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