D.A.’s office “no longer has confidence” in Luis Vargas’ sexual assault convictions
After DNA cleared Luis Lorenzo Vargas, the L.A. County district attorney’s office notified the court that it “no longer has confidence” in his convictions for three 1998 sexual assaults. At trial, a prosecutor had argued that all three attacks were so similar that they must have been committed by the same person. But DNA from one of the cases was tested last year and exonerated Vargas. The test implicated the so-called “teardrop rapist,” who is still wanted for more than three dozen sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area.
Sources: California Innocence Project