>> These are the first moments of freedom as Gerardo Gavin
IEA's steps out into the real world after living behind bars
for nearly 30 years
today. La County District Attorney George Gascon own
announcing company has was wrongfully convicted in 1996.
>> To you and your family. I offer our deepest apology for
the horrible injustice that was cause he was.
>> Kevaney is was 18 years old at the time with an 8 month-old
at home when Gus Kahn says he was arrested for robbery,
kidnapping and sexual assault. No physical evidence was ever
obtained in his fingerprints did not match those collected
from the scene. The conviction of taint through a false
confession. Mister County is always mean things out on the
date of his arrests. He was corps.
>> But the investigating detective into giving a false
conflation with the promise that he would be released on
probation.
>> Throughout his years in prison, Kevaney is fought
alongside his family to prove his innocence. He got the
attention of attorneys at the California Innocence Project.
They filed a motion for post-conviction DNA testing and
they found.
>> It did not match. Gerardo has miss out on a lifetime in
the free world,
not just the day-to-day little joys of life, but all the major
events weddings.
The birthdays
going to the funeral of your loved one.
And he's miss out on raising that 8 month-old baby girl
who is now start.
>> And last week the DA's office asked in La County judge
to vacate the conviction and grant company has his permanent
release from prison because after review and further
investigation, Kevaney us was finally found innocent