Overview

• Giovanni Hernandez and Miguel Solorio, who were wrongfully convicted of murder as teenagers, have been exonerated after spending decades in prison.
• Hernandez, who was convicted in 2012 for a 2006 drive-by shooting, was exonerated after his cellphone records showed he was not near the shooting location.
• Solorio, who was convicted for the 1998 shooting of an 81-year-old woman, was exonerated after it was concluded that he had been misidentified in a photo lineup.
• Both cases were reviewed by the Conviction Integrity Unit of the District Attorney’s Office, which has been working to explore potential problems with old cases.
• Hernandez and Solorio are the sixth and seventh exonerations of wrongful convictions under Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.