Gerarda Cabanillas spent 28 years in prison for a rape, robbery and kidnapping he didn’t commit. Now, thanks to DNA evidence, he’s free. KNBC’s Bailey Miller reports.
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SUE they a**
Never answer anything without an attorney
Sad he was wrongfully convicted. Happy to see he is finally free.
Hope he gets some compensation for all that lost time
May God bless and keep him always.
CA better pay him 1 million per year he spend in prison
Regardless out of all the money you can get it whoever was involved with the sentencing should be fired maybe even a fine cause no matter what the thing more valuable than life itself is time we never get it back what would happen to a regular person shouldn’t be different
This is one of the reasons I oppose the death penalty. The other reason is i believe jail to be a far worse punishment.
I wasn’t even born yet when this man wad arrested.. I hope he find’s peace and live’s a good life.
Imagine being convicted without proof. Best Justice system from the most "advanced" country in the world!
She the state and police for 30 million dollars
I believe any person who wrongfully accuses anyone of any crime. Should have to do the time that person did or was facing. It's so easy to ruin someone's life over lying.. good for this man, but that conviction overturn won't bring them years back..
Awesome
Please be quiet about your gods and your blessings. There is no god – this case alone proves it.
Wow.
That just means the real person of this crime. 30 years ago is still possibly free. But not to worry one day the real suspect will die and he will stand in judgment before the ultimate judge like everyone will. How are you doing that day? Have you always bear witness to the truth of moral reality?
I know everybody always says I have nothing to hide when talking to the police. And I have nothing against police officers. But this is the exact reason why you do not ever talk to a police officer without a lawyer present! Hopefully this was a hard lesson that he learned. We have this thing called the Constitution. Nobody uses it. I know you don't want to seem like that you're somebody who hates the police, but that's not what this means. You actually love the police and you love the law. This is why you do not speak to them without a lawyer present.
Another failure of the American justice system.
And no consequences for making a man's life a living nightmare.
I am hurting right now,,,,how many more lives are being destroyed as we speak😮😢
You can never get that time back never hopefully that cop I mean pig can get those years and he better be Sueing 💰 he needs every much
@nbc I think you mean Gerardo not Gerarda.
Poor Guy. NO AMOUNT of money can make up for time lost. NONE whatsoever
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There something I do not understand about your justice system, how can a person be jailed without a matching evidence and you guys says we are in democracy…what is that? I can't comprehend it in any way. Is it same old badness or what? Just asking.
He should get some sort of restitution from the system for this 🙏
This poor guy got robbed thirty years of his life. He deserves major reparations. Everyone that failed this poor should be sued for every last penny. How do you convict someone with no concrete evidence at ALL? Absolutely useless.
Did they put the DNA in the system to find the real bad guy?
Put those people to the jail for 28 years caused to make this DNA test process so slow. They are who really deserved it
They forgot the part "He is also a Millionaire with the case he is about to win".
He was convicted the year I was born…
Like think about all the world events and life he missed because of this? Wow.
Lawsuits don’t work! The individuals that enable this need to suffer directly!
I would sue for 28 mill theres no way they didn't break some of his right to incarcerate him for that long
So the real criminal got away and they better pay that man $5,000,000 for all that pain & suffering
Being a black man I understand where he's coming from and this always happened to us
How does it take almost 30 years to free an innocent man?, because the system says one thing and does another, innocent until proven guilty is not the reality.
He should be compensated for 28 years of missed income. So at least the remainder of his days can be spent free of worry.
So your whole young life gone.
It's that a $50 million payout? Better be to at least try and make things right.
I hope he sues the crap out of this police department..
Whoever was responsible for false statements and covering up his innocence should be sentenced to the same time at the same place. And he should be awarded millions.
My goodness what a sad terrible conviction
I pray he lives the most wonderful life ever ❤❤❤❤
The left out the part of how much the government and police department are going to award him. He must be made a millionaire now
These things are good enough!! I know there are more in prison just like him!! Give him his massive check and let him start his life. He’s lost his whole life.
He needs to file suit and give him a few million $ for restitution of a false imprisonment.
They need to pay that man for the rest of his life for demolishing his life
They owe that man a lot