A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge on Monday vacated decades-old murder convictions against two men who spent over 20 years behind bars for a crime they say they did not commit—based solely on the eyewitness testimony of a man who lied about needing eyeglasses, according to her opinion.

Judge Dena Douglas granted a 440 motion filed on behalf of Kareem Mayo and Donnell Perkins, writing that she found their claims of newly discovered evidence credible.

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