09/17/2026
Damn
Rene Lima-Marin was 20 years old when he robbed two video stores at gunpoint in Aurora, Colorado. A judge sentenced him to 98 years in prison, one after another, with no possibility of them running concurrently.
Something went wrong in the paperwork. In 2008, a court employee recorded his sentences as concurrent instead of consecutive, and the system let him out 90 years earlier than he was supposed to be released. No one noticed for nearly six years. Rene found work as a glazier, bought a house, married Jasmine, and started a family with two children.
In 2014, someone reviewed the file and discovered the error. They sent him back to prison to serve the remainder of a sentence he had already begun to put behind him. His case ended up before an Arapahoe County judge, who decided in 2017 that time had already done its part.