In 1979, Brenda Anderson testified that a... young man with whom she had
gone to high school shot her elderly neighbor to death. Thirty-four
years later, Anderson’s sister Sharon took the stand and said the
account, which helped send the young man to prison, was a lie.
On Thursday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sided with Sharon
Anderson and threw out the conviction of Kash Delano Register, who
maintained his innocence during more than three decades as inmate No.
C11693, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Register took his first steps of freedom just after 4:30 p.m. Friday.
The 53-year-old exonerated inmate was transported from a Northern
California jail to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los
Angeles, where he left a free man, CBS Los Angeles reports.
“It was just an emotional feeling that just came out of nowhere,” Register said. “Finally, after 34 years.”
His release followed a Thursday ruling in which a judge overturned
Register’s murder conviction in connection with the 1979 fatal shooting
of a 78-year-old man in West Los Angeles.
“I lost my eyesight for a minute. I couldn’t see. I was so rejoiced,”
Register’s mother said. “I couldn’t believe what I’d heard. That he had
his freedom back.”
His freedom is due in part to Keith Chandler, a former inmate at Folsom State Prison and prison library clerk. Thirteen years ago, Register asked for Chandler’s advice.
“‘I need your help with the parole board,’” Chandler recalled Register
saying. “‘I want to know how to explain to the board that I’m not crazy
when I say I’m innocent,’ because he was being repeatedly denied
parole.”
When Chandler was released from prison, he wrote a petition to get a judge to appoint Register an attorney.
Register ended up with a team of attorneys and students from Loyola Law
School’s Project for the Innocent. They presented a new case, including
testimony from Sheila Vanderkam, the estranged sister of one of the
original key witnesses, who said she knew her sister lied during her
testimony in Register’s trial
Source: http://newsrescue.com
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