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Man cleared of NYC murder after 25 years in prison
I have to wonder when prosecutors and judges that send men to jail for 20+ years on bs evidence will be tried for their abuses of the legal system? When will police officers who shoot unarmed suspects be tried for AT LEAST some sort negligence? As time goes by - we will see more and more of these wrongful convictions. This is no longer a situation of a few people being wrongfully convicted. This has now become a statistic. Thousands of people have been exonerated - there are still tens of thousands who may have served their sentences even though they were innocent. The prison complex is one that 1% of the country's population passes through every year. We must start taking measures the ensure innocents don't have to go through it.
The exoneration, first reported by the Daily News, comes amid scrutiny of Brooklyn prosecutors' process for reviewing questionable convictions, scrutiny that comes partly from the new district attorney, Kenneth Thompson. He said in a statement that after a months-long review, he decided to drop the case against Fleming because of "key alibi facts that place Fleming in Florida at the time of the murder."
From the start, Fleming told authorities he had been in Orlando when a friend, Darryl "Black" Rush, was shot to death in Brooklyn early on Aug. 15, 1989. Authorities suggested the shooting was motivated by a dispute over money.
Fleming had plane tickets, videos and postcards from his trip, said his lawyers, Anthony Mayol and Taylor Koss. But prosecutors at the time suggested he could have made a quick round-trip plane jaunt to be in New York, and a woman testified that she had seen him shoot Rush. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison and was due to have his first parole hearing soon.
I have to wonder when prosecutors and judges that send men to jail for 20+ years on bs evidence will be tried for their abuses of the legal system? When will police officers who shoot unarmed suspects be tried for AT LEAST some sort negligence? As time goes by - we will see more and more of these wrongful convictions. This is no longer a situation of a few people being wrongfully convicted. This has now become a statistic. Thousands of people have been exonerated - there are still tens of thousands who may have served their sentences even though they were innocent. The prison complex is one that 1% of the country's population passes through every year. We must start taking measures the ensure innocents don't have to go through it.