A top Brooklyn politician pressed the state Tuesday to set up a special commission to investigate wrongful convictions and pinpoint the problems—and people—to blame.
“Releasing innocent people is not the end. It is only the beginning,” said Borough President Eric Adams, who represents a county where more than two dozen murder and other convictions have been scrapped since 2014. He wants an independent panel to “examine exactly what went wrong here and who’s culpable.”
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