'Although we cannot give him back the decades of his life lost we are thankful that the court has corrected this miscarriage of justice.'
Muhammad Aziz, who was exonerated last year in the killing of Malcolm X, spoke to ABC News about his decades in prison.A man who has spent 32 years in prison for being wrongly convicted of murderJoaquin Ciria was arrested in 1990 and convicted of shooting and killing his friend, Felix Bastarrica, in San Francisco. His conviction was based on"Our office is proud of and grateful for the work of the Innocence Commission in rectifying the wrongful conviction of Mr.
Varela testified in exchange for complete immunity that he drove Ciria to and from the scene. Boudin states that Varela, who was then a teenager, was pressured by police to name Ciria as the perpetrator.Joaquin Ciria, center, and attorneys Paige Kaneb, left and Ellen Eggers, react as Ciria is exonerated in San Francisco Superior Court, April 18, 2022.
An alternate suspect was not mentioned to the jury, and evidence of Ciria's alibi was not given on trial despite two available alibi witnesses.The Innocence Commission also found that another eyewitness, the victim's best friend, identified another person as the shooter, and that other witnesses confirmed details to corroborate this new eyewitness' story, including the description of the shooter provided by the stranger eyewitnesses, which more closely matches another suspect.
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