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The discredited officers were convicted of a number of crimes, including bribery, lying under oath, conducting illegal searches and sexual assault.
The Brooklyn district attorney's push to vacate 378 convictions is one of the largest mass exonerations in U.S. history.
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Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said he didn’t find misconduct in the cases, but his prosecutors “no longer have confidence” in the work of the officers — who were convicted of crimes running the gamut from perjury to planting drugs to accepting bribes.