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San Francisco DA’s Inaugural Innocence Commission Frees Its First Victim of Wrongful Conviction
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2022
by Keith Sanders
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2022, page 47
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
California.
by Keith Sanders
In April 2022, Joaquin Ciria was exonerated after being wrongfully convicted of killing Felix Bastarrica in 1991. The 61-year-old Ciria, who maintained his innocence from the beginning, became the first person exonerated by a new Innocence Commission under the aegis of now ex-San Francisco District Attorney, Chesa ...
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