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Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(NEW YORK) New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men who both spent more than 20 years in prison after being convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases.

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Jabar Walker, 49, who is also known as Jabar Moore, and Wayne Gardine, also 49, were both wrongfully convicted.

In the case of Walker, who was convicted in 1998 in a murder-for-hire case, Bragg s office cited the existence of "newly discovered evidence" of his wrongful conviction and said Walker did not receive meaningful legal representation.

"Not only was the case against Jabar Walker built upon unreliable and recanted testimony, he did not have the benefit of an effective defense attorney one of the constitutional bedrocks of our criminal justice system," Bragg said in a statement. "Despite these serious issues, Mr. Walker received a sentence that could have ....

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