A convicted serial pedophile who was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison has been released on a technicality.
Michael Tracy McFadden, 46, was freed from a Colorado state prison on Tuesday, after an appeals court found that his 2015 trial had been delayed beyond statutory requirements and tossed the conviction.
McFadden cannot be retried on the charges of sexually molesting six young boys and girls, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled. He will not have to register as a sex offender.
‘We are without remedy,’ Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein told the Daily Sentinel. ‘I am appalled.’