Brooklyn prosecutors want to toss convictions tainted by criminal cops
Prosecutors in Brooklyn are calling for the reversal of 378 criminal convictions connected to 13 former New York Police Department officers convicted of criminal offenses, according to The New York Times.
The convictions in question are low-level drug and traffic cases dating from 1999 to the present. Prosecutors all over the city have been revisiting these cases that depended on the work of officers convicted of crimes that directly related to their work.
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On Wednesday, Gonzalez asked for an additional 15 convictions involving felony charges under his jurisdiction to be reversed. The prosecutor's office and Legal Aid Society found that several of those cases resulted in jail time for the defendant.
Gonzalez stated, "These convictions continue to hang around people and impact them in all kinds of ways." Gonzalez added, "Had we known about these officers, we would never have brought these cases."
Gonzalez's office intends to submit the remaining convictions for review in the next few weeks.
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