Man freed 90 years early faces return to US jail

Rene Lima-Marin: 98 years for video store hold-ups
Rene Lima-Marin: 98 years for video store hold-ups
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A man who rebuilt his life, started a family and became a model citizen after being released from prison 90 years too early due to a clerical error is fighting a move to send him back behind bars for the rest of his life.

Rene Lima-Marin, 35, was re-arrested in Colorado in January, six years after being released from prison, where he had been held for two armed robberies committed when he was 19.

He is now married with sons aged four and seven. He coaches football, is active in his church, fits windows for a living, and believes that a spotless post-prison record shows that he is not the same “stupid kid” he was when he committed his crimes. “I do not want to