Brooklyn, NY – Members of a police review panel selected by Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes now want to leave the panel since Hynes was voted out of office.
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According to Page Six of the New York Post (http://bit.ly/19dheMu) the panel consists of retired judges, lawyers and law professors given the job to review 40 controversial convictions that were founded on investigations by a corrupt NYPD detective.
The 12-member panel was appointed by Hynes in July to review convictions attained by retired Detective Louis Scarcella. The move to create the panel was generated after the DA’s office released a man wrongly imprisoned for 23 years after Scarcella allegedly coached one of the witnesses and failed to properly record the specifics of the investigation.
The Post reported in July that three members of the panel – including chairman Robert Keating –provided money for Hynes’ re-election campaign.