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3. It might be due to the fact that the case was reopened

Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:37 PM

Nov 15

and two of the three convicted were exonerated in 2021, and were given a monetary settlement by NY in 2022.

The NYT had a long article about it (originally published in 2021 and updated in 2023), which included this -

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A 22-month investigation conducted jointly by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and lawyers for the two men found that prosecutors and two of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department — had withheld key evidence that, had it been turned over, would likely have led to the men’s acquittal.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/nyregion/malcolm-x-killing-exonerated.html

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