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"Twenty-five years ago, I walked up these same steps as an innocent man. And today ... I'm here, still, as an innocent man." This case is so much bigger then the injustice that kept the three behind bars for two decades. It’s about a broken system in the former administration of the Queens DA’s office that allowed prosecutors to hide critical evidence from the defense, including this police report linking others — connected to a local robbery crew called the Speedstick gang — to a 1996 double murder at a check cashing store in Astoria. "They had evidence I couldn't have committed this...

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...