Powerful New York Prosecutors Under Scrutiny As Many Convictions of Likely Dirty Cop Are Probed

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Powerful New York Prosecutors Under Scrutiny As Many Convictions of Likely Dirty Cop Are Probed

Hynes, the current top prosecutor in Brooklyn ... “In our experience with cases of wrongful convictions, over many years and in all five boroughs, there are elements of misconduct by the police and elements of misconduct by prosecutors,” said Steven ...

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Retired NYPD detective investigated for misconduct

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Retired NYPD detective investigated for misconduct

The Legal Aid Society has been given a list of 20 of Scarcella’s ... who finished his career as an executive assistant Brooklyn D.A. in 1999 and now works as a defense lawyer. In each of these cases it’s not clear what the prosecutors ...

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Brooklyn DA Will Have to Testify in Wrongful Conviction Case That Alleges Widespread Prosecutorial Misconduct

For more than two years, Jabbar Collins and his lawyer have pursued a multi-million dollar wrongful conviction lawsuit against New York City. They have unearthed what they claim is damning evidence of misconduct by prosecutors in the office of Brooklyn ...

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Watching the Detectives: Will Probe of Cop's Cases Extend to Prosecutors?

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Watching the Detectives: Will Probe of Cop's Cases Extend to Prosecutors?

Hynes, the current top prosecutor in Brooklyn ... "In our experience with cases of wrongful convictions, over many years and in all five boroughs, there are elements of misconduct by the police and elements of misconduct by prosecutors," said Steven ...

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Twenty Years On, Second Thoughts About Chasid’s Killer

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Twenty Years On, Second Thoughts About Chasid’s Killer

Collins, who served 15 years of a 33-year-to-life sentence, was freed in 2010 after a federal judge ... observation that could have lasted no more than a few seconds; transcripts of the 911 calls regarding the crime do not, however, include ...

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Watching the Detectives: Will Probe of Cop's Cases Extend to Prosecutors?

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Watching the Detectives: Will Probe of Cop's Cases Extend to Prosecutors?

Charles J. Hynes, the current top prosecutor in Brooklyn, has ordered a formal review of 50 cases that Scarcella investigated, an enormous undertaking that was prompted by Scarcella's alleged role in wrongly convicting a Brooklyn man of murder more than 20 ...

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Powerful New York Prosecutors Under Scrutiny As Many Convictions of Likely Dirty Cop Are Probed

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Powerful New York Prosecutors Under Scrutiny As Many Convictions of Likely Dirty Cop Are Probed

Two are now New York State judges. Several others are accomplished lawyers at some of the city’s more respected firms ... Laurie Levenson, a former assistant U.S. Attorney who now teaches criminal law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said that ...

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Retired NYPD detective investigated for misconduct

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Retired NYPD detective investigated for misconduct

Laurie Levenson, a former assistant U.S. Attorney who now teaches criminal law at Loyola Law School ... a former New York police officer and prosecutor in Queens and Brooklyn who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ...

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