Wrongfully convicted of murder, Timothy Master's set free
CNN: You spent some prime years of your life -- late 20s, early 30s -- in jail for a crime you didn't commit. What do you think you missed most by not being a free man in those years?
Masters: There's so much. Right off the top, I'd say having a family. I think they're very much responsible for me not having a family right now, a wife and kids. But it goes back further than just them arresting me. It goes all the way back to my high school days when they labeled me a murder suspect among all my peers and my teachers and everything. It goes back a long time. Watch police interrogate a 15-year-old Masters »
CNN: Any hard feelings toward the Fort Collins Police Department or the prosecutors in the case?
Masters: Oh, absolutely. They locked me up for a decade for something I didn't do. Read how DNA pointed to a new killer
CNN: If you could talk to the prosecutors or police who handled your case, what would you say to them?
Masters: I don't want to talk to them at all.
CNN: Talk about your lawsuit against the prosecutors and police. Who does it target?
Masters: Mainly, [former prosecutors, now Judges] Jolene Blair and Terri Gilmore and [Fort Collins police Lt.] Jim Broderick, but there are a few other defendants involved and the city, but in my mind those are the big three. Key players in the case »
Links: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/25/tim.masters.year.later/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/22/masters.case/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/18/masters/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/01/masters.gifts/index.html