Daniel Saldana was arrested in 1990, when he was 22 years old, for allegedly firing a gun at a car containing six teenagers.
Daniel Saldana was wrongly convicted of the attempted murder of six people in 1990. Saldana was released after 33 years behind bars.
A California man who served 33 years behind bars for attempted murder has been freed after the state reopened his case and determined he was not involved in the crime, theDistrict Attorney George Gascón said Daniel Saldana, 55, would now be allowed to walk free after he was one of three men charged in a"I know that this won’t bring you back the decades you endured in prison.
He added: "Not only is this a tragedy to force people into prison for a crime they did not commit, but every time that an injustice of this magnitude takes place, the real people responsible are still out there to commit other crimes.
He was convicted of six counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle and was sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison. Two other suspects were charged in connection with the shooting. Gascón's office reopened the case in February after learning another convicted attacker told authorities in 2017 that Saldana "was not involved in the shooting in any way, and he was not present during the incident," the DA said.Six years after the testimony was provided, Saldana was declared innocent, Gascón said.The delay was attributed to a former deputy district attorney who was present at the parole hearing where the convicted attacker gave the exonerating testimony.
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