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>> These are the first moments
of freedom as Gerardo Gavin

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IEA's steps out into the real
world after living behind bars

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for nearly 30 years

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today. La County District
Attorney George Gascon own

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announcing company has was
wrongfully convicted in 1996.

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>> To you and your family.
I offer our deepest apology for

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the horrible injustice that was
cause he was.

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>> Kevaney is was 18 years old
at the time with an 8 month-old

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at home when Gus Kahn says he
was arrested for robbery,

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kidnapping and sexual assault.
No physical evidence was ever

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obtained in his fingerprints
did not match those collected

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from the scene. The conviction
of taint through a false

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confession. Mister County is
always mean things out on the

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date of his arrests. He was
corps.

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>> But the investigating
detective into giving a false

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conflation with the promise
that he would be released on

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probation.

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>> Throughout his years in
prison, Kevaney is fought

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alongside his family to prove
his innocence. He got the

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attention of attorneys at the
California Innocence Project.

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They filed a motion for
post-conviction DNA testing and

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they found.

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>> It did not match. Gerardo
has miss out on a lifetime in

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the free world,

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not just the day-to-day little
joys of life, but all the major

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events weddings.

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The birthdays

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going to the funeral of your
loved one.

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And he's miss out on raising
that 8 month-old baby girl

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who is now start.

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>> And last week the DA's
office asked in La County judge

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to vacate the conviction and
grant company has his permanent

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release from prison because
after review and further

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investigation, Kevaney us was
finally found innocent