The murder, rape and robbery conviction of a man who spent decades in prison was vacated Wednesday, bringing to a close an eight-year odyssey for attorneys at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton who took the case pro bono and saw it through two rounds of DNA testing and new law on reviewing convictions made by the New York Court of Appeals.
The motion of former inmate Clifford Jones to vacate his 1981 conviction based on DNA evidence was granted by New York Supreme Court Justice Edwina Richardson-Mendelson with the consent of prosecutors and is one of the first murder cases in which Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s Conviction Integrity Program agreed on vacatur.
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