Maurice Hastings: US man in prison for 38 years freed by new DNA evidence
Maurice Hastings was wrongfully convicted of murder and repeated requests for DNA testing were denied.
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A US man who spent nearly four decades in prison for murder has been released after new DNA evidence pointed to a different person.
Maurice Hastings served more than 38 years in state prison for the 1983 murder of Roberta Wydermyer in California and two attempted murders.
But new DNA evidence instead pointed to another man who died in prison in 2020.
