"The facts always showed that Mr. Olivares was innocent but the medicine needed time to catch up and prove it," said Lauryn Barbosa Findley, a lawyer with the Northern California Innocence Project who represents Olivares. "Mr. Olivares' case is both extraordinarily unique and tragically common because faulty medical testimony has been used for too long to convict far too many loving parents and caretakers."
After a 16-day trial in 2014, Olivares was convicted of assault on a child under 8 years old resulting in death, and sentenced to 25 years to life. Ten years later, a Los Angeles County judge vacated Olivares' conviction on Sept. 19 after attorneys for the 39-year-old man argued that new evidence suggests his prosecution was based on medical testimony that is now outdated, and wrong.
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