DNA Clears Man Convicted in Inglewood Killing After 38 Years in Prison

DNA Clears Man Convicted in Inglewood Killing After 38 Years in Prison
Maurice Hastings, 69, sits in court during the hearing. His conviction of the 1983 abduction and killing of a woman in Inglewood was overturned after newly tested DNA evidence showed that another man was responsible for the crime. Screenshot via Vimeo/Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office
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LOS ANGELES—A man who served 38 years in prison for the 1983 abduction and killing of a woman in Inglewood is a free man Oct. 28, with authorities saying newly tested DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime and identified a different person as the culprit in the slaying.

“I’m not pointing fingers. I’m not standing up here a bitter man,” Maurice Hastings, 69, said during a downtown Los Angeles news conference. “But I just want to enjoy my life while I have it. And I just want to move forward.”

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