Prosecutors in Brooklyn are looking to toss out 378 criminal convictions — the majority of which are low-level drug and traffic offenses dating as far back as 1999 — because they were worked by 13 New York Police Department officers later convicted of crimes relating to their work.
Eric Gonzalez, Brooklyn's district attorney, has asked a state judge to vacate the first 15 convictions, all of which are felonies and several which resulted in prison time, per a report in The New York Times. His office will seek the vacating of the remaining cases over the next several weeks.
