Innocence Project

Describing injustice of an “almost unbearable” magnitude, Brooklyn’s District Attorney Eric Gonzalez this week released a report concluding that police and prosecutorial misconduct contributed to the wrongful convictions of 25 New Yorkers by his own office. 

There was no doubt about the horror of the situation: a 4-month-old baby girl was dead. The question facing the jurors was less clear-cut: Was the tiny girl’s death accidental, or had she been murdered by her own father?