After spending 32 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, Joaquin Cira will walk out of San Francisco jail a free man.
A 61-year-old man who had been in prison for three decades after being wrongfully incarcerated for the murder of his friend is expected to be released from San Francisco jail on Wednesday.
The ruling by Judge Brendan Conroy came 32 years to the day after Ciria was arrested for murdering Felix Bastarrica—who had actually been killed by a mutual acquaintance of the two men, according to his attorneys. was supported by District Attorney Chesa Boudin after the Northern California Innocence Project and attorney Ellen Eggers brought the case to the DA’s Innocence Commission for review.
Relying on the rumors, police immediately targeted Ciria and coerced George Varela—the man who drove the actual shooter to the crime—to falsely name Ciria as the shooter. Although he originally told the truth of Ciria’s innocence, when police told him he could either implicate Ciria or be charged with the murder, Varela succumbed to the pressure, his attorneys said. In a recorded interview, Varela agreed to be a witness against Ciria and testify to "whatever said.
More specifically, an eyewitness who had been imprisoned for an unrelated crime finally came forward in 2020 to say that he saw and heard another man, Candido Diaz, arguing with the victim at the scene. He sought out Ciria’s and Bastarrica’s families to reveal for the first time that Diaz had killed Bastarrica, his lawyers said.
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