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    Criminal Justice Winter 2021

    Volume 35 Issue 4  

    Criminal

    Reckoning with Wrongful Convictions: Lessons Learned from an Examination of 25 Wrongful Convictions in Brooklyn, New York

    Eric Gonzalez

    In 2014, the Brooklyn DA’s office launched its Conviction Review Unit (CRU) to investigate and remedy wrongful convictions. The Brooklyn CRU has vacated 28 convictions and has many more investigations ongoing. The impact of the cases that were overturned by the CRU is most profound for the wrongfully convicted individuals and their families, but the reasons for these convictions are also profoundly consequential for the people of Brooklyn and for the legal community nationwide.

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