28 years after his arrest and subsequent conviction for theft, kidnapping and assault, Gerardo Cabanillas has been declared innocent and released in the US state of California. He had been in prison since he was eighteen.
Cabanillas was sentenced to decades in prison in 1996. After his arrest, he initially made a confession during police interrogations. The Innocence Project stated that investigators persuaded him to do so with false promises that he would be released on parole. The group stands up for those who may have been wrongfully convicted.
Cabanillas protested his innocence in court at the time, but was convicted. He was accused of carrying out an attack on two couples sitting in parked cars in South Gate in 1995. DNA tests have now cleared him, the prosecution said.
“Serious injustice”
Cabanillas has suffered a “grave injustice,” Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement on Tuesday (local time). The justice system failed in his case.
Source: Krone
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