A New York state judge on Friday threw out murder convictions of three men who had been jailed for 24 years.
Justice Joseph A. Zayas reprimanded prosecutors for withholding evidence in the 1996 case that could have cast doubt on the guilt of George Bell, 44, Gary Johnson, 46, and Rohan Bolt 59, who were all found guilty in the murders of an off-duty NYPD police officer Charles Davis and Ira “Mike” Epstein.
According to multiple reports, prosecutors in the case failed to file police reports connecting the killings to other men who were part of a local robbery ring.
Read more at The Hill.
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Prison reform? These people should’ve never been in jail! Lock up the prosecutors!
There are many more who are incarcerated because of prosecutorial misconduct.
Another example of how: Justice, on many occasions, is indeed ‘blind’.