Not my opinion, but fact:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...32-504083.html
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS/AP) After wrongly locking up Timothy Masters for nearly 10 years, Larimer County has agreed to pay him $4.1 million to settle a federal lawsuit.
Masters was convicted in 1999 for the murder and sexual mutilation of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins, Colo. In 2008, a judge overturned the conviction after DNA evidence pointed towards another suspect. Masters, a former aircraft mechanic, was the first person freed from prison in Colorado because of DNA evidence.
In 1987, at age 15, Masters came under suspicion after he saw a body in a field but didn't report it to police. He was arrested 10 years later due to a psychological analysis of his drawings that investigators said pointed to Masters as the killer.
Prosecutors Blair and Gilmore were rebuked in 2008 by state attorney regulators. Both acknowledged they failed to ensure defense attorneys received several key pieces of information obtained by police that called the prosecution's case into question.
Masters' lawsuit claims detectives and prosecutors maliciously targeted him and destroyed or withheld evidence that could have cleared him. Claims against police and Fort Collins are pending.
"Tim has been basically destitute since they released him from prison without an apology," said his attorney David Lane. "This gives him a good chance to start putting this behind him."