Joaquin Ciria was arrested in 1990 and convicted of shooting and killing his friend, Felix Bastarrica, in San Francisco. He has now been exonerated.
Highlights
- Joaquin Ciria was arrested in 1990 and convicted of shooting and killing his friend Felix Bastarrica.
- San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin dismissed the case against Ciria after a judge overturned his conviction.
- Ciria’s release date is not yet known, but could be within the next few days.
- There have been more than 270 known wrongful convictions in California alone since the National Registry of Exonerations began tracking wrongful convictions back in the late 1990s.
- The case was the first reviewed by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office’s Innocence Commission since its formation in 2020.
- The commission found that another eyewitness, the victim’s best friend, identified another person as the shooter.