Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has granted clemency to 24 people.
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has granted clemency to 24 people, including the co-defendant of a Cuban immigrant who was pardoned in 2017 to prevent him from being deported as well as a state trooper hailed for stopping a gunman who entered the office of a previous governor over a decade ago but was accused of pointing a gun at a driver last year.
In a letter to Clifton, Polis, a Democrat, said that Lima-Marin’s pardon was among the reasons he decided to issue a limited commutation of his 98-year sentence, as well as because his punishment was well beyond the typical range for such a crime and the work he has done in prison to help other offenders recognize the impact of their crimes on victims.
Five years after Kasperek opposed Lima-Marin’s pardon, he said he was impressed by Clifton and questioned his part in his conviction. At the time, Kasperek remembers being told to focus on what Clifton did, which instilled “anger and hate” and made him “base entire existence off those few minutes of what he did in that store.”
Polis also issued a pardon to and commuted the one-year probationary sentence of Jay Hemphill, who pled guilty to misdemeanor menacing this year. He was arrested after allegedly yelling and pointing a gun at a driver as he was crossing the street near the state Capitol in 2021.
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