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New York Man Exonerated of Murder and Freed After 25 Years in Prison
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2021
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
February, 2021, page 33
Filed under:
Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence,
Murder/Felony Murder,
Certificate of Innocence.
Location:
New York.
by Douglas Ankney
On November 19, 2020, New Yorker Jaythan Kendrick was exonerated of murder and freed from prison after serving 25 years. The Queens County Supreme Court vacated his 1995 conviction based on newly discovered evidence that included DNA and eyewitness testimony.
In November 1994, a 70-year-old woman was ...
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