A new poll from Data for Progress released on Monday found 76% of voters in the Empire State support a package of bills that could help end wrongful convictions.
Three members of the Exonerated Five, as they’re now called, along with the Innocence Project, are using social media to ask Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) to support the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act.