![]() Investigations into Saldana’s case began in February after the district attorney’s office learned that another convicted attacker had told authorities during a 2017 parole hearing that Saldana “was not involved in the shooting in any way and he was not present during the incident,” Gascón said.Ī former deputy district attorney was present at the hearing “but apparently did nothing” and failed to share the exonerating information with Saldana or his lawyer as required, he added.Īs a result, Saldana spent an additional six years in prison before the DA’s office reopened the case and declared him innocent, Gascón said. “I’m just so happy this day came,” he added. “It’s a struggle, every day waking up knowing you’re innocent and here I am locked up in a cell, crying for help,” Saldana said, according to the Southern California News Group. Saldana appeared with District Attorney George Gascón at a press conference announcing his exoneration on Thursday. Convicted of six counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, Saldana was sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison. Saldana, who was 22 at the time of the shooting and working full-time as a construction worker, was one of three men charged with the attack. The attackers mistook the teens for gang members, authorities said. ![]() There were six teenagers inside and two of them were wounded but survived. A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent and freed after it emerged that he was not even at the scene of the attack.ĭaniel Saldana, now 55, was convicted in 1990 of opening fire on a car leaving a high school football game in Baldwin Park, east of Los Angeles. ![]()
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