Ruben Martinez Jr. was found innocent and walked free Tuesday, after years of campaigning by his wife and a friend led prosecutors to review his case.
A man who spent 11 years in prison for a series of Los Angeles armed robberies he didn’t commit was exonerated Tuesday after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly convicted.
A jubilant Martinez, 49, said his prayers had been answered and that he was not a bitter man. He thanked his wife, Maria, for not only standing by him but pursuing his freedom vigorously.“I did not do this time by myself,” Martinez said after the brief court hearing. ”My family did time. My wife did time with me, did the 11 years with me. I couldn’t do it on my own, on my own strength. It was God’s strength that got me through this.
“Mr. Martinez and his wife proved to be unstoppable in their pursuit of his freedom,” Lacey said. “Throughout this terrible experience, the two were never deterred by setbacks and instead demonstrated remarkable strength and dignity through what I imagine must have been a dark time in their lives.”Martinez had been convicted in 2008 of five robberies at the same auto paint shop in the city’s Boyle Heights neighborhood between 2005 and 2007.
His first trial ended with a deadlocked jury. Two of the victims testified at that trial that Martinez was not the robber, said defense attorney Angela Berry, who was appointed for the exoneration hearing.
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