Brooklyn's new District Attorney leads the way with 8 inmate exonerations so far this year

OREN YANIV

Eleven New York inmates have been exonerated so far this year — as many as in any other full year — and Brooklyn leads the way, a new study reveals.

A team of 13 in the office of new District Attorney Kenneth Thompson is in the middle of a review of 100 cases — an effort that has already yielded eight exonerations, with more expected.

“I am determined to get to the bottom of these cases,” said Thompson, who defeated Charles Hynes in last year’s election and took over in January.

Thompson’s Conviction Review Unit is a third of the way through examining 57 homicide prosecutions that are said to be tainted by the questionable work of now-retired Detective Louis Scarcella. That unit has cleared four defendants and upheld 15 verdicts, Thompson said.

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