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Article: DEFENDING LISL LISL AUMAN IS SERVING LIFE IN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF A DENVER POLICE OFFICER - A MURDER THAT HAPPENED WHILE SHE SAT, HANDCUFFED, IN A POLICE SQUAD CAR. NOW, POWERFUL SUPPORTERS ARE SIGNING ON TO HELP AUMAN WAGE HER LEGAL BATTLE.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- March 18, 2001
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Byline: Jeff Kass News Staff Writer
CANON CITY -- Twice a month, Lisl Auman slips out of her forest-green prison khakis, puts on a regulation yellow T-shirt and gray shorts, and walks from her cell to an American Indian sweat lodge.
``That has become my religion, basically, the Native American religion,'' says Auman, who has 1 / 16 native blood.
``I go there and I pray, and for the first time in my life I really feel like my prayers are being heard.''
Somebody definitely is listening.
Auman, serving a life sentence at the Colorado Women's Correctional Facility in Canon City, is fast becoming a legal cause celebre. In the past ...