They Spent 24 Years Behind Bars. Then the Case Fell Apart.
They Spent 24 Years Behind Bars. Then the Case Fell Apart. A judge threw out the murder convictions of three New York men on Friday and admonished prosecutors for withholding evidence that cast serious doubt on their guilt. Gary Johnson after his release on Friday.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York Times March 5, 2021 On the weekend before Christmas in 1996, a shop owner was opening his check-cashing store in East Elmhurst, Queens, alongside an off-duty police officer who was working security, when the two were ambushed by a group of men, shot and killed. The case touched off a ferocious manhun...
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