wrongful conviction

Steven Ruffin spent 14 years in prison for a 1996 Crown Heights killing he didn't commit, according to the Brooklyn DA's office.

Leonard Mack served more than seven years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. It took nearly a half-century to clear his name.

The law would have helped a Queens man whose murder conviction was overturned this week, his lawyer said.

Manhattan DA Cy Vance said that the conspiracy to cover up the truth of the civil rights leader's murder went all the way to J. Edgar Hoover.

In a hearing on Monday, the borough's top prosecutor successfully petitioned a judge to overturn convictions linked to the work of three officers.

The district attorney’s decision marks a sharp reversal for the office, which had for months sought to preserve the conviction.

State lawmakers are pushing the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act, to help vacate convictions based on new or suppressed evidence.

The decision follows the publication of previously secret NYPD disciplinary records obtained by Gothamist and WNYC.

A group is filing complaints against current and former Queens prosecutors who have been criticized by judges for misconduct.

The three men will walk free on Friday, after spending more than 24 years in prison for their supposed role in an ambush killing of an East Elmhurst shop owner and an off-duty cop.