Michael Alvarado
Respondent
Tara K. Allen, Counsel of RecordOn the night of September 22, 1995, Francisco Castaneda was shot and killed in a parking lot outside a mall in Los Angeles, California. A little over a month later, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Detective Cheryl Comstock called the mother of 17-year-old high school student Michael Alvarado and requested that she bring him in for questioning. Comstock said she thought Alvarado might have knowledge that could help in the investigation of the crime. At the sheriff’s office, Alvarado was escorted into a private room without his parents, where for two and a half hours he was…
