A South LA man convicted of life without the possibility of parole is now free after spending 38 years in prison.
man convicted of life without the possibility of parole is now free after spending 38 years in prison.
Maurice Hastings, 69, served more than 38 years in state prison for the 1983 murder of Roberta Wydermyer.According to the DA’s officer, the coroner conducted a sexual assault examination which involved swabbing various body parts, including an oral swab in which semen was detected. The first jury was deadlocked, but a second jury convicted him, and Hastings was sentenced in 1988 to life without the possibility of parole.
"Earlier this month, the crime scene DNA profile was uploaded through the state’s Combined DNA Index System. The analysis identified a match to a person in the database who had engaged in and been convicted of an armed kidnapping where he placed his female victim in a trunk of a vehicle as well as the kidnap, rape, and forcible oral copulation of a young woman for which he was sentenced to 56 years in custody," the statement read. DA Gascón publicly admitted the system failed him.
Gascón said in today's time, even without DNA evidence, it would be unlikely, for Hastings to stand trial… the case against him was that weak.
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