A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday confirmed what Maurice Hastings has known for every minute of the last four decades: he was wrongly imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.
Mr Hastings, a Black man, was released from prison last year after previously untested DNA evidence suggested that he was not responsible for the 1983 murder he had been convicted of. Last October, the Judge William Ryan vacated Mr Hastings’ conviction at the urging of Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and lawyers from the Los Angeles Innocence Project.
