Through his arrest, at age 19, for a murder in South LA, through the trial where he received a sentence of 72 years to life, and through fruitless appeals, Abel Soto maintained his innocence. In 2020, after he had been in prison for more than a dozen years, his family and friends set out to hire a lawyer who would prove once and for all that he was wrongfully convicted. They went with Aaron Spolin — a Soto decision and his supporters would come to deeply regret it. Rather than thoroughly investigating his case to turn up exonerating evidence, Spolin…