ALBANY – A prosecutor’s failure to correct false testimony about the benefits received by one of her key witnesses has prompted the state Court of Appeals to vacate the 1993 murder convictions of two men.
The Court, which ordered a new trial for Danny Colon and Anthony Ortiz, also faulted the Manhattan prosecutor for interviewing two women soon after the double killing but failing to turn over her notes to the defense prior to the trial.
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