NY Times: 4 Suspects Are Expected to Be Released in Brooklyn Rape Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/nyregion/4-brooklyn-rape-suspects-expected-to-be-released-as-officials-try-to-sort-out-case.html

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Four of the five defendants suspected of raping an 18-year-old woman at a Brownsville playground on Jan. 7 were expected to be out of jail by Thursday night, after the Brooklyn district attorney alerted the court that he would not make the initial deadline to obtain indictments against them.

Under New York law, prosecutors have less than a week from the time a suspect is arrested on a felony charge to obtain a grand-jury indictment. If prosecutors do not make that deadline, the suspects must be released from jail. The prosecutor then has six months to obtain an indictment.

“Because we are determined to get to the truth about what happened in that park, we need more time to investigate this complex case and gather more evidence,” Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, said in a statement. “So, therefore, we have consented to the defendants’ release.”
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