Gov. Hickenlooper Responds To Pardon Criticism

By Kelly Werthmann
DENVER (CBS4) – Gov. John Hickenlooper is responding to criticism that his pardon of a Colorado convict was illegal and misinformed.
Friday afternoon, the governor pardoned Rene Lima-Marin, 38, who was convicted of several counts of armed robbery and kidnapping in 2000. Lima-Marin was mistakenly released from prison due to a clerical error, spent nearly six years as a free man and used that time to build a family in Aurora, but was incarcerated in 2014 when the state rea