Giving fresh consideration to convictions obtained through guilty pleas is growing more common as a best practice for conviction review units nationally.
July 29, 2022 at 02:23 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
When Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the redesign of his office’s Post-Conviction Justice Unit in the spring, he said the lessons learned through the unit might help the office evaluate and potentially improve its overall work.
Bragg emphasized that benefit in a conversation this week regarding the case of 48-year-old Steven Lopez, a co-defendant of the Central Park Five whose conviction was vacated Monday following a joint motion from Bragg and Lopez’ attorney Eric Renfroe.
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Steven Lopez listens during a court hearing, Monday, July 25, 2022, in New York. Lopez, a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
