Colorado detective charged with perjury
Tim Masters was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted for murder - after spending nine years in prison, he has been exonerated by DNA evidence and the detective from his case - Lt. Jim Broderick - is being prosecuted for perjury:
Masters, who served nine years of a life sentence after his 1998 arrest in Peggy Hettrick's murder, has said he hopes Fort Collins and Larimer County will finally acknowledge that he was railroaded.The city and county have paid Masters a combined $10 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit related to the conviction, but they painted the payouts as business decisions rather than reparations.
"I am anxious to see if the leadership in Fort Collins will finally publicly admit my incarceration was a mistake or if they will continue this charade that their people did nothing wrong," Masters said in a statement provided by his attorneys. . . .
. . . Among the charges in the indictment are that Broderick intentionally lied about an FBI profile used to support Masters' arrest, shoeprints found at the crime scene, a fellow investigator's crime scene observations and his own degree of participation in the case.
The prosecutors that put Tim in prison have since been rewarded by being elected as judges - Jolene Blair and Terry Gilmore.
Although the city and county have paid out $10 million, they still admit no wrongdoing.
Broderick still admits no wrongdoing, and his attorney suggests that Broderick's prosecution is politically motivated because the prosecutor is running for office (irony?).
