A Brooklyn attorney’s nearly 18-year-old illegal voting conviction—one he described as an act of political retribution by former District Attorney Charles Hynes—was thrown out on Thursday.

John O’Hara’s conviction was vacated at the state Supreme Court building in downtown Brooklyn, which has seen more than 20 exonerations in recent years, but typically for defendants wrongly convicted of more serious crimes like murder or sexual assault.

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