Harry Kaufman, a subway employee, was burned to death in his toll booth in 1995. Now prosecutors are disavowing the convictions of the three men who pleaded guilty to the crime.
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"The findings of an exhaustive, years-long reinvestigation of this case leave us unable to stand by the convictions," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a release. He cited"serious problems with the evidence on which these convictions are based" and acknowledged"the harm done to these men by this failure of our system."
Prosecutors are disavowing the convictions of three men who spent decades in prison for one of the most horrifying crimes of New York's violent 1990s.
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