Two Men Are Exonerated in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders
Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.
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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.'