A man has been sent back to a Colorado prison for 90 years after he was released too early due to a clerical error.
Rene Lima-Marin was convicted in 2000 for robberies at video stores in Aurora, including one armed robbery.
He was sentenced to a combined 98 years for several convictions.
But a court clerk mistakenly wrote in his file that the sentences were to run at the same time, and he was released on parole in 2008 after serving just eight years.
When authorities realised their mistake, they immediately sent Lima-Marin, now 35, to prison, saying he had been aware of the error but did not notify authorities.
The man had in the meantime tried to rebuild his life, starting a family with his old girlfriend, whom he married.
The woman had a child from a previous relationship and the couple have a four-year-old boy, Josiah.
"He should go back because the law requires the sentence he received," said Rich Orman, an Arapahoe County senior deputy district attorney.
"He should not be able to escape the minimum sentence due to a clerical error."
Lima-Marin's error was discovered in January, but the case has only come to light now.
It comes after other court clerical errors made headlines in the US.
In Missouri, a convicted robber did not report to prison - despite trying to do so - for 13 years because of a clerical mistake. When authorities realised their mistake he was imprisoned, but a judge this week set him free.
A Los Angeles murder suspect who was accidentally freed last year due to a clerk's error was captured on Thursday.
And in Colorado, an inmate mistakenly released four years early due to such a mistake killed the state's corrections chief at his front door last year.
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