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.”
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Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of false confessions and other examples of malfeasance by police and prosecutors