
L.A. man wrongly imprisoned for 38 years declared innocent
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A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he didn't commit was declared innocent by a judge in Los Angeles Wednesday.
Maurice Hastings was released from prison last year after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect. The judge in October vacated Hastings' conviction at the request of prosecutors with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office and his lawyers from the Los Angeles Innocence Project.
Prosecutors and Hastings' lawyers returned to court to ask Judge William C. Ryan to take the additional step and declare him innocent of the killing 40 years ago.

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