After Overturned Conviction, Another Man Found Guilty Of 1994 Murder
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CBS4) - A man has been found guilty of murdering a woman another man was wrongly accused of killing.
According to District Attorney Dan Rubenstein, Douglas Thames was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder after deliberation, first-degree murder felony murder, and first-degree sexual assault for killing and raping 19-year-old Jacie Taylor in Palisade in 1994.
Thames was also sentenced to life without parole on the murder counts and 48 years for the sexual assault charge.
Robert Dewey spent 18 years in prison wrongfully convicted of the crime and was later exonerated by DNA that eventually led to Thames. Dewey was freed on April 30, 2012, and his case inspired a new law compensating the wrongly convicted in Colorado.
