Michael Yarborough
Petitioner
Kenneth C. Byrne, Counsel of RecordOn September 22, 1995, 17-year-old Michael Alvarado, Paul Soto, a man he met that night, and others were at a Los Angeles-area mall making calls from a parking lot pay phone. At one point, Soto suggested they steal a nearby truck. He approached the vehicle’s driver’s side while Alvarado went to the passenger door. Witnesses report a gunshot, and the truck’s driver, Francisco Castaneda, was later found dead of a bullet wound. On the morning of October 24, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Cheryle Comstock called Alvarado’s mother and requested that she bring him in…
