Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer who was wrongly imprisoned as a teenager in the infamous rape case.
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The victory will come more than two decades after DNA evidence was used to overturn the convictions of Salaam and four other Black and Latino men in the 1989.
Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat on the New York City Council, decades after being wrongly imprisoned. Elsewhere in New York, local elections could offer clues about how the city’s suburbs could vote in next year’s congressional elections.