A man who served 34 years in prison for the killing of a man in West Los Angeles, but had his murder conviction overturned, walked out of a downtown jail Monday.
“I’m just in a numb feeling right now,” Kash Delano Register said after walking out of the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles. “You know, it just hasn’t really set in yet. I know it’s real, but it just hasn’t truly set in yet. It’s a beautiful feeling though.”
On Thursday, Register’s conviction for the April 6, 1979, shooting death of a man in West Los Angeles was overturned. A key witness in the case, Brenda Anderson, testified that she saw Register at the crime scene. Register was convicted, despite claims by his girlfriend that she was with him at the time.
Anderson’s sister, Sharon, testified at a hearing last month that Brenda Anderson had lied. According to attorneys for the Project for the Innocent at Loyola Law School, another Anderson sister tried to tell police investigating the shooting in 1979 that Brenda had lied to police, but the claim was never presented to Register’s defense attorney.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Katherine Mader ruled Thursday that the prosecution had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence, and used false testimony at Register’s trial. That ruling cleared the way for the 53-year-old Register’s release.
