Manhattan’s top prosecutor on Tuesday overturned over 300 convictions involving police officers who were themselves found guilty of crimes, in the most recent of more than 1,000 cases involving police officers who were suspected or convicted that were dismissed citywide.
The most recent abandoned convictions date back to 1996 and were almost all misdemeanors.
Each includes one of nine cops who were eventually found guilty of misconduct, including accepting bribes, selling firearms without a license, lying under oath, and injecting drugs into suspects.
Manhattan Prosecutor Disavows Over 300 Convictions
Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, claims that the prosecutions led to the detention of over 50 people and the imposition of 130 fines.
Bragg and at least three of New York City’s four other district attorneys, in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, have worked to have more than 1,200 cases involving cops who had been charged or found guilty dismissed since the start of 2021.
The drug convictions that former narcotics officer Joseph Franco, who was accused of lying before the case against him was dropped in the middle of the trial this January, acquired were the first dismissals. the moment Bragg’s case was thrown out.
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Convictions Tied to Officers Linked to Misconduct Dismissed in NYC
By that time, prosecutors in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx had successfully overturned hundreds of convictions related to Franco, and a number of public defense and exoneration advocacy organizations had sent a letter urging the city’s district attorneys to follow suit in cases involving 22 additional officers.
According to the legal organizations, twenty had received criminal convictions, and two others had engaged in serious wrongdoing related to their jobs.
The nine cops connected to the cases that Bragg is throwing out this week were on their list.
One of the letter writers, Elizabeth Felber of the Legal Aid Society, who supported the dismissals, persuaded Bragg and his fellow DAs to proceed.
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