Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office is officially backing away from its earlier assertion that a man about to be paroled for rape is actually innocent.
In a letter to the parole board dated May 23, Chief Deputy Attorney General Harlan Levy formally withdrew a statement in a Dec. 30, 2013 letter to the panel in which the head of the conviction review unit at the time said it was “highly unlikely that [Ronald Bower] committed the crimes for which he was convicted.”
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