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A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting was exonerated Thursday after prosecutors said they now believe the killer was an acquaintance he has implicated for decades. “I lost 14 years of my life for a crime that I didn’t commit,” Steven Ruffin told a Brooklyn judge after sighing with emotion. Although Ruffin was paroled in 2010 and has since built a career in sanitation in Georgia, he said that getting his manslaughter conviction dismissed and his na...

A Brooklyn man who served 14 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit – in a case investigated by disgraced ex-NYPD Det. Louis Scarcella – had his conviction overturned Thursday, prosecutors said.

A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting in New York has been exonerated

A man who spent 14 years in prison for a 1990s shooting was exonerated after prosecutors now believe the real killer was someone he implicated for decades, officials say.

A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting in New York has been exonerated

Prosecutors said they were exploring whether to charge the man they now believe shot 16-year-old James Deligny on a Brooklyn street during a February 1996...

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said new evidence showed that Ruffin was misidentified as James Deligney’s shooter.

Ruffin was paroled in 2010 and has since built a career in sanitation in Georgia. He said that getting his manslaughter conviction dismissed and his name cleared “will help me move on.”

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