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Edward Helmore in New York

Manhattan district attorney moves to exonerate two men convicted of murder

An elated Jabar Walker raises his lawyers’ hands after stepping outside the Manhattan supreme court as a free man on Monday.
An elated Jabar Walker raises his lawyers’ hands after stepping outside the Manhattan supreme court as a free man on Monday. Photograph: Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS/Getty

New York’s Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, announced on Monday that he was moving to vacate the conviction of two men found guilty of murders in the 1990s near a Harlem police precinct known for corruption.

Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker, both aged 49, now join the list of New Yorkers, overwhelmingly Black and Hispanic, who have been exonerated after decades in prison.

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