“Just every day waking up knowing that you’re innocent. The innocent man said the conviction was heartbreaking and that he spent every day in state jail “struggling.” Daniel Saldana was released 33 years after he was wrongfully imprisoned on six attempted murder charges. Saldana - who was 22 years old and employed as a construction worker - was slapped with six counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle and sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison. Prosecutors believe the real gunmen mistook the students for gang members when they hailed bullets at the car. Two students were injured but survived their wounds. Saldana was locked up in 1990, just months after he was pinned as one of the two gunmen who opened fire on students who were driving in Baldwin Park after a high school football game. “I’m just grateful to be alive every day,” Saldana said at a press conference. Man who served 28 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturnedĪ man who spent more than three decades - more than half his life - in prison for a crime he didn’t commit was finally exonerated and released from state prison this week.ĭaniel Saldana, 55, walked free 33 years after he was convicted of trying to murder a group of six high school students, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday. Louis prosecutor seeks to free man serving life sentence for 1990 murderĢ wrongly convicted men, who served 17 years for attempted murder, declared innocentįlorida man wrongfully convicted freed after serving 34 years of 400-year attempted robbery sentence
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