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Friday, January 18, 2008

DA Seeks To Vacate Masters Sentence

Special prosecutors assigned to examine the Tim Masters case will recommend Tuesday that his conviction for killing Peggy Hettrick be vacated pending a decision by the Larimer prosecutor on whether he should be re-tried for the crime.

Adams County District Attorney Don Quick, who was appointed to investigate the Masters case, said at a 5 p.m. press conference that DNA found on Hettrick's clothes is a match with "an alternate suspect," and not with Masters own DNA.

So, on Tuesday, when hearings into the legality of Masters 1999 conviction were to continue in Larimer, Quick will instead move that the court vacate his conviction and life sentence. He could be freed from prison, pending a decision by the Larimer DA on whether to try him again.


The Denver Post

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