NYC prosecutors tossing more drug cases tied to indicted NYPD detective
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Posted Apr 15, 2021
In this April 24, 2019, file photo, former New York City Police Department Detective Joseph Franco, center, leaves a Manhattan Supreme Court courtroom, in New York. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. s office said Thursday, April 15, 2021, that in the coming weeks, it will move to vacate and dismiss about 100 cases in which ex-Detective Franco served as a key witness. (Alec Tabak via AP, File)AP
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NEW YORK New York City prosecutors will seek to overturn scores of additional drug convictions that relied on the work of an indicted former NYPD detective who has been accused of framing innocent people in some cases.
DAs tossing more drug cases tied to indicted NYPD detective
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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez in New York says his office has lost confidence in 27 felony and 63 misdemeanor convictions in which an essential witness was a detective who’s now facing perjury charges. Gonzalez’s Conviction Review Unit is asking a court to vacate the convictions after the detective, Joseph Franco, was accused of framing people in drug cases. (The New York Times, NBC New York, the New York Daily News, Brooklyn district attorney’s press release)