Masters, who served nine years of a life sentence after his 1998 arrest in Peggy Hettrick’s murder, has said he hopes Fort Collins and Larimer County will finally acknowledge that he was railroaded.
The city and county have paid Masters a combined $10 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit related to the conviction, but they painted the payouts as business decisions rather than reparations.
“I am anxious to see if the leadership in Fort Collins will finally publicly admit my incarceration was a mistake or if they will continue this charade that their people did nothing wrong,” Masters said in a statement provided by his attorneys.
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