Criminal
Sep. 8, 2017
New California laws allow wrongful conviction to be vacated
A man who was wrongfully convicted of child molestation has gotten the judgment vacated with the help of two new California laws, the Northern California Innocence Project, and the woman who was once his accuser.
A man wrongfully convicted of child molestation decades ago has had the judgment vacated with the help of two new California laws, the Northern California Innocence Project, and the woman who was once his accuser.
A law passed in late 2016, AB 813, enables people who have already been released from custody to move to vacate their convictions. Another law that became effective this year, SB 1134, changed California’s standard for in...
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