Charles Linehan’s passion for working to liberate and exonerate the wrongfully convicted didn’t come from just from a single case or the exuberance of seeing someone walk free after spending years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.

For Linehan, who the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has just hired him to run its nationally acclaimed Conviction Review Unit (CRU), much of the motivation to work on wrongful conviction cases comes from breakthroughs in the investigative process, like tracking down a witness to a decades-old crime and finding that they have a different story from the one they gave police some years ago.

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