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Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.

New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases.

New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases.

Prosecutors said the men had been wrongfully convicted in two separate cases, one of which involved a detective linked to the false confessions of the “Central Park Five.”

The eight felonies were majority drugs-related. The Legal Aid Society warned that many people have probably been discriminated against as a result of these convictions.

Between 1996 and 2017, 316 people were unjustly tied up in the legal system in the borough — with 57 of them landing behind bars — according to the Manhattan district attorney's office.

More than 300 convictions over a 21-year span — each linked to nine NYPD officers previously convicted of on-the-job corruption — were vacated Tuesday at the

Hundreds of convictions tied to nine dirty NYPD cops have been tossed following a review of the cases by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

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A warehouse where the NYPD stored decades of evidence went up in flames last week. The loss of that evidence could affect many cases and people that the Legal Aid Society represents.