Photo: Clarence Moses-EL found not guilty after 28 years in prison; source Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post.
A man who spent 28 years in prison for rape—whose name came was conjured by the victim in a dream—was found not guilty in a retrial, according to a Denver Post news report.
After twenty-eight years, two trials, an admitted-but-then-retracted confession, lost DNA evidence, and a victim who accused him based on identifying him in a dream, Clarence Moses-El left a Denver courtroom on November 14, 2016 a free man.
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The not guilty verdict vindicated Moses-EL of first-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault, second-degree burglary, stemming from accusations that he raped and beat his neighbor in 1987, which Moses-El has always adamantly denied.
Days after the initial incident, police questioned the victim, who reported that she did not get a good look at her attacker. But she described a man with a hairstyle, one that was not like the hairstyle Moses-EL had at the time. The victim later reported and identified Moses-EL, a neighbor with whom she had argued, because his name came to her in a dream.
The case was further complicated by a convicted rapist, LC Jackson, who testified under oath that he had sex with the victim and hit her on the same night of the attack. Jackson did not in Moses-EL’s trial however, and will not be prosecuted due to statute limitations.
