In 1989, Clarence Moses-EL received a 48-year prison sentence based on a woman's dream, where she identified him as the perpetrator



In 1989, Clarence Moses-EL received a 48-year prison sentence based on a woman's dream, where she identified him as the perpetrator who had allegedly raped and beaten her in the dark. 

The assault was claimed to have occurred in her apartment after a night of drinking at a party.

The severity of the assault left her with fractured facial bones and the loss of vision in one eye.

At first, the victim identified three men she had been drinking with as potential assailants, none of whom turned out to be Clarence Moses-EL.




However, the police did not investigate any of those men. Instead, a day and a half later, the victim claimed in a dream that a man she knew only as ‘bubbles’ was the one who assaulted her. This man turned out to be Moses-EL. 

Moses-EL consistently asserted his innocence. However, he was sentenced to 48 years in prison for the crime he didn’t commit. 

Moses-EL, who had always maintained his innocence, raised a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel against his public defender for failing to obtain DNA testing prior to trial. The Colorado courts denied that claim. 

Another man, L.C. Jackson,  eventually confessed to being the one behind the attack, and in November 2016, Moses-EL was acquitted of all charges and freed. 

He was wrongly imprisoned for over 25 years. 

In 2019 Moses-El was awarded $2,304,979 in state compensation.

The DNA evidence that could have cleared Moses-EL was destroyed by the Denver police in 1995, despite a court order to preserve it.

L.C. Jackson, the man who confessed to the crime, was the victim’s boyfriend at the time of the attack and one of the three men she initially named as suspects.

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