by Alec | Sep 25, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog
To the burgeoning annals of discredited prosecutions conducted by former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office, which we’ve been chronicling here at The Open File for some time, we must now add the 1993 kidnapping convictions of Everton Wagstaffe and...
by OpenFile | May 6, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog
In an article titled, “3 Are Exonerated of Murder in Cases Tied to a Discredited Detective,” Frances Robles and Stephanie Clifford of The New York Times report on the latest convictions to be overturned by new Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson due to...
by OpenFile | Feb 26, 2014 | New York, The Open File Blog
We recently wrote about the challenge for newly-elected Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson in trying to address the mess that his predecessor, Joe Hynes, left behind when he was voted out of office last November. Following a number of high profile cases in which judges found...
