Another CROOKED-Prosecutor "Dodges-A-Bullet"

[Mr. Shaman]

"A man who spent 15 years in prison on a New York City murder conviction has been freed after the Brooklyn district attorney's office conceded the case had been mishandled and should be thrown out.

Kevin Richardson, an executive assistant district attorney, said the office had not learned until May that the key witness who incriminated Jabbar Collins in had recanted before the trial. Richardson said the office could not retry the case because of the loss of the witness testimony and physical evidence that has been destroyed.

A federal judge Tuesday called the handling of the case "shameful" and vacated the conviction. Collins, 37, was freed Wednesday. He said he wants to go to law school and defend people without legal representation.

The New York Times said the decision also spares officials from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office — most notably the hard-charging prosecutor who oversaw the case, Michael F. Vecchione — from being compelled to testify about the allegations of misconduct during a habeas corpus hearing that was set to resume this week.

Judge Dora L. Irizarry, of the United States District Court in Brooklyn, said Tuesday that in agreeing to free Collins, the district attorney’s office had avoided a hearing that would have offered greater transparency into the case’s “troubling history.”

“It is indeed beyond disappointing, it is really sad that the district attorney’s office persists in standing firm and saying that it did nothing wrong here,” the judge said."

Run, Mikey, run.....​

 

[Dixie]

This situation is of the arguments against the death penalty, imo.