#499 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Joaquin Ciria

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday November, 27, 2024, the night before Thanksgiving, Governor Gavin Newsom of CA granted a a “full and unconditional” pardon to Earlonne Woods, co-host and co-creator of the award-winning podcast, Ear Hustle. Earlonne helped create Ear Hustle while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. In recognition of Earlonne’s achievement, we are sharing with you an episode of Wrongful Conviction where Earlonne appeared as a guest host. Congratulations Earlonne. We are eager to hear more from you in the future.

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On March 24, 1990, Felix “Carlos” Bastarrica was shot and killed on the street in San Francisco, CA. Following the shooting, Candido “Peter” Diaz, started rumors that one of Felix’s friends, Joaquin Ciria, was responsible. Relying on the rumors, police immediately targeted Joaquin and coerced 18-year-old George Varela – the man who drove the actual shooter to the crime – to falsely implicate Joaquin. Based primarily on this, and despite the complete lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime, Joaquin was convicted of murder and sentenced to 31 years to life in prison. Earlonne Woods talks to Joaquin Ciria and Paige Kaneb, Joaquin's attorney.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. On the night of March 24th, 1990, Felix Basterica was walking down an alley
0:36.8	in San Francisco's Mission District.
0:39.3	Witnesses saw a man get out of a white money carlo and confront Felix and the two started arguing.
0:45.3	Suddenly a shot rang out and Felix fell to the ground, dead.
0:49.3	The shooter jumped back into the car and sped away with another man at the wheel. By the next morning, rumors were flying around the streets that the shooter was a lifelong friend of Felix's, Waukeen Syria.
1:02.0	They had grown up together in Cuba.
1:04.0	Word was that the two were in a dispute over money.
1:07.0	Joaquin had been out earlier that evening with a friend who drove at White Money
1:11.1	Carlo, but he claimed to be home with his wife and baby son for the night by the time the
1:15.5	crime was committed. After viewing several lineups that included Joaquin's picture, two eyewitnesses
1:21.4	IDed him as the man they'd seen. One witness claimed that she was 80% certain, and that was close enough for the jury but this is wrongful
1:32.6	conviction welcome back to wrong for Conviction.
1:48.1	I'm Erlon Woods, co-creator and co-hosts of the Ear Hustle podcast, guest hosting for Jason
1:53.3	Flomner Day.
1:54.5	And I got to tell you, I served over 27 years in prison, and I used to always think about the
2:00.1	people who were in here that were actually
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