"I feel blessed, it's a blessing," said Sanford, 36. "I kept my faith in the Lord, that one day I was going to get out, that one day God was going to open the door."
Sanford represents the latest victory for Laguna Beach attorney Annee Della Donna and Innocence OC, a project she founded with the UC Irvine School of Law to review wrongful convictions.
"I've been denied so many times, with lawyers promising so many times and it not coming through. Hope was not there, Sanford said in an interview with the Southern California News Group. But Annee fought for it."
Sanford's road to release began in the prison law library, where he found the 2019 state Supreme Court ruling in People v. Canizales, which tightened the kill zone theory used in his case.
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