Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said he didn’t find misconduct in the cases, but his prosecutors “no longer have confidence” in the work of the officers who were convicted of crimes running the gamut from perjury to planting drugs to accepting bribes.
The cases tied to former Detective Joseph Franco were formally dismissed by Bronx Supreme Court Judge David Lewis following a review by the Bronx District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Bureau. The DA’s office had previously dismissed 123 cases tied to Franco.
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Last month, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced they were moving to dismiss nearly two hundred convictions involving Joseph Franco, a veteran narcotics detective who was indicted for lying under oath in 2019. Now, a coalition of eleven wrongful conviction and public defender organizations are challenging the validity of hundreds of other convictions going back decades.
In a letter sent to all five borough District Attorneys and New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutors on Friday, the coalition identified twenty-two additional NYPD officers whose misconduct, they assert, merits the dismissal of all convictions in which they played an essential role.
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