Overview

• Newly filed court records show the agreement was reached in August and disclosed Monday ahead of a planned trial.
• Maurice Hastings spent 38 years in prison before his conviction was vacated in 2022 and a judge declared him factually innocent in 2023.
• DNA testing by the DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit excluded Hastings and matched Kenneth Packnett, who died in prison in 2020.
• The suit alleged Inglewood detectives Grant Price and Russell Enyeart and a county DA investigator coerced identifications, suppressed alibi evidence, and fabricated statements.
• Hastings’ attorneys say the $25 million sum is the largest wrongful-conviction settlement in California, while officials declined to comment and other terms were not made public.