DNA Evidence Frees Colorado Man

Timothy Masters, smiling and soft-spoken, walked out of court a free man for the first time in nearly a decade, his murder conviction wiped out by DNA evidence that points to another suspect. Masters, age 36, was ordered freed on a personal recognizance bond b Larimer County District Judge Joseph Weatherby. Prosecutors promised to decide quickly whether to try him again. Masters had been sentenced to life in prison in l999 in the killing of a 37 year old woman.