My husband Alan Omar Abarca was sentenced to a 25 to life sentence at the age of 18 for a Murder he didn't commit. There was witness tampering, threats against his family and lies told in order for him to take the blame for this crime. Because apparently Somebody had to pay for this crime. Now the real guilty party is another young man who was murdered six months after the original murder. A life for a life, this debt has already been paid. 

Due to the witness tampering by the Los Angeles County police department, who blamed my husband and pointed the finger at him as the suspected guilty party, the female witnesses listened to the cops and easily picked my husband out of a lineup. The District Attorney threatened to go after my husband's brother and his girlfriend who was pregnant with their first child. They said if not you then, you and them, then you'll have 3 lifers in the family. His lawyer who was paid to defend him, lied to him when he said that his mother told him to accept the 25 to life that the DA offered. They promised that if they went to trial he would lose and end up with 50 to life. 

My husband was 18, fresh out of YA, innocent of this crime but he couldn't stand the idea of his niece born in prison.