A panel of former prosecutors, professors and retired judges
will review dozens of trial convictions associated with a retired New York City
police detective whose work may have sent innocent men to prison.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes made the
announcement Monday.
The group will be led by former administrative judge and
Pace Law School professor Robert Keating. Others on the panel include Joseph
Bellacosa, a retired member of the New York State Court of Appeals.
They’ll review about 50 cases worked by detective Louis
Scarcella. Prosecutors began casting a critical eye at Scarcella’s work after a
judge threw out the conviction of a man accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi.
A spokesman for Hynes told The New York Times that critics
may question some of the panelists’ ties to him. But he called them “esteemed
individuals with the highest integrity.”
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