Man jailed for 1998 drive-by shooting is exonerated and set for release

Man jailed for 1998 drive-by shooting is exonerated and set for release
Miguel Solorio was wrongly convicted of a drive-by shooting (Northern California Innocence Project via AP)

A California man who has spent 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit was exonerated and ordered released by a judge on Thursday after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly convicted.

Miguel Solorio, 44, was arrested in 1998 for a fatal drive-by shooting in Whittier, south east of Los Angeles, and eventually sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

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