CNN: After serving 38 years for a murder he didn't commit, Maurice Hastings has finally been declared innocent

Written By Danielle Leaf

Maurice Hastings, a man wrongfully convicted of a 1983 robbery-homicide and sexual assault, has been declared innocent by a California judge. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan formally declared Hastings factually innocent and cleared the arrest and prosecution from his criminal record during a Wednesday hearing.

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