Brooklyn D.A. Adds 14 Cases to Review of Detective's Work

Albert Samaha

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson has gotten much praise and credit for his office's focus on reviewing questionable convictions of the past. Over the seven months he has been in office, the New York Times, USA Today, and other news outlets have run stories about how Brooklyn has taken the lead on the issue of wrongful convictions.

He bulked up the Conviction Integrity Unit from two lawyers to ten, and he tabbed more than $1 million-a-year to their investigations.
At the center of the office's review, of course, are the Louis Scarcella cases. A majority of the cases under review in Brooklyn involved Scarcella, and the proportion has just grown.

Before this week, public knowledge was that Thompson's office was reviewing 57 Scarcella cases. On Wednesday, the Daily News reported that the office has added 14 more Scarcella cases to the review.

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