PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — An Oregon man is free from prison nearly 17 years after he was sentenced to life for a murder he consistently denied having any part of.
Nicholas Sias was released from the Oregon Department of Corrections earlier this month with the help of the Federal Public Defenders and the Oregon Innocence Project who argued Washington County prosecutors withheld evidence and influenced the jury against Sias.
In 2010, Sias was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years for the 2009 murder of 18-year-old Alexander Hernandez-Apale in Beaverton. A jury found Duane Everett Corbett, Maciel Muñoz, and Nicholas Sias guilty of stabbing the teen who later died from his injuries…