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False Conviction

Vicente Benavides Figueroa claims in a federal complaint that false evidence, conspiracy and other misbehavior by Kern County and Delano city officials caused him to spend 25 years on California’s death row for a murder he did not commit.

SACRAMENTO — Vicente Benavides Figueroa claims in a federal complaint that false evidence, conspiracy and other misbehavior by Kern County and Delano city officials caused him to spend 25 years on California’s death row for a murder he did not commit.

Categories / Civil Rights, Criminal

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