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    Court clerk's error led Rene Lima-Marin's release in 2008 ? 90 years too soon

    Yeah, no big. Just a little clerical error. Whoopsies....

    AURORA, Colo. (AP) ? Rene Lima-Marin's wife told her two young sons their father had to go to work the night in January when a team of police officers led her husband away in handcuffs.

    It had been nearly six years since he left prison, and his family believed he had paid his debt to society.

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    But Lima-Marin should have stayed behind bars for the rest of his life. A court clerk's error led to his release in 2008 ? 90 years too soon. Colorado authorities did not discover the mistake until January and immediately sent him back to prison to serve the rest of his 98-year sentence for armed robbery.

    Lima-Marin's case comes as other clerical errors have let criminals evade prison time. In Missouri, a judge this week freed a convicted robber who didn't report to prison ? despite trying to do so ? for 13 years because of a clerical mistake. A Los Angeles murder suspect who was accidentally freed last year due to a clerk's error was captured on Thursday.

    And in Colorado, an inmate mistakenly released four years early due to such a mistake is suspected of killing the state's corrections chief at his front door last year. That prompted Gov. John Hickenlooper to order an audit of thousands of inmates' records to ensure they are serving the correct sentences. Lima-Marin wasn't part of the audit because it focused on other kinds of felonies, corrections department spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said.

    Lima-Marin and another man were convicted in 2000 on multiple robbery, kidnapping and burglary charges in connection with two violent robberies of Aurora video stores when Lima-Marin was 20. In one assault, the pair ordered employees into a back room at gunpoint and another worker to the floor as they demanded money from a safe.

    A judge sentenced Lima-Marin to serve back-to-back sentences on eight convictions, for a total of 98 years. But a court clerk mistakenly wrote in his file that the sentences were to run at the same time. Corrections officials depend on that file to determine how much time an inmate should serve.

    Lima-Marin was released on parole in 2008 after serving just eight years.

    He set about building his life ? while, prosecutors say, being fully aware of the clerical error and never notifying authorities.

    Lima-Marin, now 35, started selling coupon books door-to-door, and more recently became skilled at cutting and installing windows. He reconnected with his former girlfriend, Jasmine Lima-Marin, and they married in July in a ceremony that also celebrated his completion of five years of parole. He was active in church and helped coach soccer.

    Lima-Marin helped Jasmine raise her 7-year-old son, Justus. Soon, they had another boy, Josiah, who is now 4. Lima-Marin was in prison for his birthday party.

    "That was his life, raising his kids and being a husband," Jasmine said. "He definitely was not the same person that he was when he went in to prison."

    Lima-Marin's co-defendant, Michael Clifton, also would have been mistakenly released early, but the error in his file was uncovered after he filed an appeal in his case. Clifton is serving 98 years in prison.

    Lima-Marin filed his own appeal in 2000 but, in a rare move, asked that it be dismissed less than a year later. Prosecutors say that showed he was aware of the clerical error before his release and feared any further court action would call attention to it.

    Rich Orman, an Arapahoe County senior deputy district attorney, said he was alerted to the error in January by a former prosecutor who handled Lima-Marin's case and was checking on its status. Orman quickly filed a motion to send Lima-Marin back to prison. A judge agreed.

    "He should go back because the law requires the sentence he received. This was a number of very serious criminal offenses, and anything less would be inappropriate," Orman said. "He should not be able to escape the minimum sentence due to a clerical error."

    Good behavior outside prison is not a consideration in cases involving people released improperly due to human error.

    Jacobson, with the state corrections department, said it was the court that made the mistake and prison officials would not have known Lima-Marin was released incorrectly.

    Colorado State Public Defender Doug Wilson did not return calls seeking comment. In April, a judge declined to release Lima-Marin at his public defender's request, noting that Lima-Marin knew he should have served 98 years but remained silent about the mistake.

    The Associated Press reached out to Lima-Marin for comment but he has not responded.

    "We don't have secrets. If he knew there was a mistake, he would have told me," Jasmine said. She said her husband did not try to mask his identity.

    The prospect of Lima-Marin remaining imprisoned for nine more decades has devastated his family. They argue his clean life after prison shows he has been punished enough. Jasmine said they are considering another appeal and have reached out to the attorney involved in the recent Missouri case.

    "He was given an opportunity to live again and it was taken away from him," Jasmine said.
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    I can't find the thread for the man who was arrested after not being put in Prison 13 years ago - but with him and now this, our Prisons are really not doing so well lately.

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    i'm glad that robber never went to jail. he did good in his life after that incident. i think they gave him time served and let him go?
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    Yep! I looked back several pages and in different forums but couldn't find it. Yeesh.

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    We have vitamin b12 to thank for that link. 2 weeks ago I never could have found it.

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    Now that's a big fuckin whoops-a-daisy!!

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    One thing that I read that I didn't get. How was this guy able to coach a soccer team, when he was in prison for 8 years? My husband wasn't allowed to coach a soccer team because it had only been 4 years since he got a DUI.

    Also, 98 years when he didn't kill anyone? That's crazy to me. People who have murdered someone get way less than that!


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