After 18 months of investigations revealed that he was innocent, the charges against Joaquin Ciria were dropped and the judge in the case ordered the prisoner to be released.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin stated that 61-year-old black Ciria was convicted of gun murder as a result of perjured testimony and police misconduct.
“Ciria has been imprisoned for over 30 years for a crime she didn’t commit. Today we celebrate justice delayed and we must continue to work to reverse other similar wrongful convictions,” said Prosecutor Boudin. used the phrase.
Ciria is the first prisoner to be acquitted as a result of re-investigations initiated by Boudin at the initiative of the District Attorney’s Office of Innocence, which was set up by Boudin in 2020 to examine potential wrongful conviction cases.
Ciria was sentenced to life in prison in 1990, who was convicted of murdering a man she was arguing with in an alley in San Francisco by shooting her in the head.
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