Justice delayed

[Sean Andalou]

Brooklyn man’s murder conviction vacated after 16 years behind bars
NY Daily News

A man serving 25 years for murder saw his conviction thrown out Friday after a reinvestigation by the Brooklyn district attorney determined he wasn’t the shooter.

At a Brooklyn Supreme Court hearing, prosecutors from DA Eric Gonzalez’s office moved to toss 52-year-old Arvel Marshall’s conviction for the July 2008 shooting of Moustapha Oumaria based on video evidence supporting his years-long claims of innocence they said was ignored at his trial.

Citing failures by prosecutors, bias by the judge, and a “lack of any real effort” by Marshall’s public defender “to actually obtain and watch the video,” Charles Linehan, chief of Gonzalez’s conviction integrity unit, said the case represented “a catastrophic failure of our system at every corner.”

“You can’t ensure public safety if the public won’t have faith in the system,” Linehan told state Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic in asking him to vacate Marshall’s conviction and dismiss his indictment.

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1. Welcome Sean Andalou.

[Old Crank]

2. What can we give him

To repay a loss of 15 years?

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3. Black people remain the most exonerated race in America still