Associated Press
DENVER — Colorado’s House has unanimously endorsed a resolution urging the governor to grant clemency to a convict who was returned to prison after being mistakenly released 90 years early and reforming his life.
Republicans and Democrats spoke for the resolution Friday, which calls Rene Lima-Marin’s continued incarceration and separation from his family “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Lima-Marin was sentenced in 2000 to 98 years in prison after being convicted of robbery, kidnapping and burglary. He and another man robbed two video stores at gunpoint.
A clerk’s mistake allowed him to be paroled in 2008. He started a family and got a regular job after his release.
Authorities realized the mistake in January 2014, and police returned him to prison to complete his sentence.