Stephen Patterson’s conviction and 50-year-to-life sentence were set aside.
LOS ANGELES — A man who spent about 18 years behind bars was declared factually innocent and ordered to be released from custody Wednesday after his murder conviction was overturned for a 16-year-old boy’s killing in South Los Angeles in 2005.
“You have been exonerated, Mr. Patterson,” the judge said, with much of the audience bursting into applause in the packed downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Patterson was convicted in 2007 of first-degree murder and gun allegations in connection with the April 15, 2005, shooting of Yair Oliva as the teen stood in front of an apartment complex near the corner of 68th Street and Parmalee Avenue after a verbal dispute between Oliva and several others and a man believed to be a gang member, according to the petition.
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