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Timothy Masters, whose 1999 murder conviction was tossed following revelations about DNA-shaped holes in the case reported by the Denver Post and other news organizations, will receive $4.1 million from the Eighth Judicial District of Larimer County and a handful of its district attorneys.
And that may be only the beginning of the money coming Masters’s way. In a press release, attorney David Lane — whose prominent clients have included Ward Churchill and Richard “Father of Balloon Boy” Heene — makes it clear that the payment doesn’t resolve a suit aimed at Fort Collins and defendants in the city’s police force, which will likely be made to pony up in the future.
The dough doesn’t make up for the years Masters lost — but it’s a belated step in the right direction. Read his comments and more below:
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