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"Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense"

By JAABLOG

NEW YORK TIMES"The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, had a problem. The murder convictions of two men in one of his office?s big cases ? the 1990 shooting of a bouncer outside the Palladium nightclub ? had been called into question by a stream of new evidence. So the office decided on a re-examination, led by a 21-year veteran assistant, Daniel L. Bibb. Mr. Bibb spent nearly two years reinvestigating the killing and reported back: He believed that the two imprisoned men were not guilty, and that their convictions should be dropped. Yet top officials told him, he said, to go into a court hearing and defend the case anyway. He did, and in 2005 he lost. But in a recent interview, Mr. Bibb made a startling admission: He threw the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).