It is tough being a black man right now in society, so just imagine how bad it was 30 years ago. Where the police could arrest you, a jury could convict you and a cover up can take place after the fact just off someone saying they “dreamed” you raped them.
That is what happened to Clarence Moses-EL. Here is his story.
A man locked up for almost three decades after a Colorado woman had a dream he raped her is expected to be freed after someone else confessed to the crime.
Clarence Moses-EL was sentenced to 48 years in prison for raping and assaulting a woman after she came home from a night out drinking in 1988.
He spent 28 years in jail after she claimed it was him because she saw his face in a dream.
Twenty-five years later, convicted rapist L.C. Jackson wrote a letter to Moses-EL confessing in December 2013.
The rape victim initially named Jackson when police questioned her.
But Jackson was never arrested and later raped another woman and her daughter in 1992, about a mile and a half away from the first woman’s home.
For almost 30 years, Moses-EL was behind bars as Denver police ruined DNA evidence that could have proved his innocence.
Police destroyed body swabs and the victim’s clothes, despite a judge’s orders to preserve the evidence for testing.
While all of this is bad, that last part is particularly disgusting, if you truly believe you have the right person behind bars, why are you destroying evidence?
I think you know the answer.