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Colorado AG Weiser won’t oppose $1.9M exoneration claim

By 02/14/2019 | updated 7 years ago
In this 2015 file photo, Clarence Moses-EL talks to reporters after his release from Denver County jail in Denver. Colorado's attorney general said Feb. 14 that his office will not fight a claim for compensation by Moses-EL who spent 28 years in prison for a rape conviction that was later overturned, a decision that cleared the way for him to receive $1.9 million under the state's exoneration law.

Colorado’s attorney general will not fight a claim for $1.9 million in compensation filed by a man who spent 28 years in prison for a rape conviction that was later overturned.

Attorney General Phil Weiser announced his decision Thursday.

Clarence Moses-EL is seeking the compensation under Colorado’s Exoneration Act. The law provides $70,000 for each year a person is wrongfully held.

Colorado’s previous attorney general, Cynthia Coffman, argued that Moses-EL’s case did not meet the requirements of the law.

But she asked a court not to rule until Weiser took office in January and could review the issue.

Moses-EL was freed in 2015 after a judge overturned his 1988 conviction on rape and assault charges. Prosecutors retried the case but a jury found Moses-EL not guilty in 2016.

In this 2015 file photo, Clarence Moses-EL talks to reporters after his release from Denver County jail in Denver. Colorado’s attorney general said Feb. 14 that his office will not fight a claim for compensation by Moses-EL who spent 28 years in prison for a rape conviction that was later overturned, a decision that cleared the way for him to receive $1.9 million under the state’s exoneration law.
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
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