DENVER (KDVR) — Robert Dewey, the man who spent nearly two decades in prison in Colorado for a murder he didn't commit, has died 13 years after a judge exonerated him and he was set free.

Dewey was sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for the murder of 19-year-old Jacie Taylor, who was found dead in her Palisade home on June 4, 1994. After new DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect, a judge in 2012 exonerated Dewey.

Fox News correspondent Mark Merideth, who covered Dewey's case extensively while working for FOX31 in Denver, said Dewey died Monday morning while in hospice care in Grand Junction.

Dewey was 64 years old.

Dewey's case brought widespread attention to people wrongfully incarcerated in Colorado and what they struggle with after exoneration.

“It’s the little things that p

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