A man who spent almost 25 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit walked out of a courtroom a free man Thursday after Brooklyn prosecutors told a judge they could no longer stand by a conviction made from a “systemic failure.”
Members of the Conviction Review Unit in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office moved to vacate Andre Hatchett’s 1992 second-degree murder verdict, pointing to an unreliable eyewitness and Brady violations.
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