Thursday afternoon, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office vacated a wrongful murder conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades in prison. As HannahKliger tells us, the evidence in the case was found to be flawed.
-- A Brooklyn man who was wrongfully convicted and locked up for nearly 20 years is finally free.After a thorough investigation and more than 18 years behind bars, 35-year-old Sheldon Thomas walked out with his grandmother to finally go home.
Thomas told the judge and his family in the courtroom about his feelings towards those involved in his botched investigation and trial. He was arrested based on identification from a photo array that included a different man who was also named Sheldon Thomas, and the DA's office said investigators were aware of the mistake during court proceedings. The witness could not even identify him in a lineup.
The DA's investigation says detectives intended to arrest Thomas using the wrong photo, and even when the problem was revealed in a pretrial hearing, the judge at the time found there was still probable cause to arrest him based on anonymous tips and the resemblance between the two men.
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