Guest Commentary: Lying jailhouse informants shouldn’t put innocent Coloradans behind bars
Via the Denver Post by Anne-Marrie Moyers on November 4th, 2019
Imagine being convicted of a brutal crime you did not commit as a teenager. The recent Netflix series “When They See Us” told the story of the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers who were wrongly convicted of raping a jogger in New York City. Korey Wise was one of those young men, and he is the namesake of the innocence project that I direct at Colorado Law.
Similar injustices have happened in our state. This week marks 18 years since Lawrence Montoya was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 2000 murder of a teacher in Denver. At the age of 15 he was sent to prison because of lies told by a jailhouse informant.