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NYC Prosecutor Reopens Murder Case After News Story

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Crime & Justice News

"The Manhattan District Attorney has reopened a two-

decade-old murder case now that details have

surfaced casting serious doubt over the 1989 murder

conviction of former Brooklyn resident Lebrew Jones,

reports City Limits in New York City. Once a security

guard, now an inmate, Jones may get a second

chance at justice because the irregularities in his

case became too glaring for authorities to ignore.

The case was reopened a year ago after journalist

Christine Young - whose path crossed Jones' on the

eve of his murder trial - articulated her nagging

doubts to the Manhattan DA's office. Last month,

Young published an exhaustive account of the murder,

trial, conviction, and her own involvement in her

newspaper, the Times Herald-Record in Middletown,

N.Y. The dramatic tale made an impact in journalistic

circles - and among criminal justice advocates. For

the latter group the Jones case, coupled with the

recent DNA-based exonerations of several wrongfully

convicted men, underscores the need to modernize

how the New York police and the city's five district

attorney's offices preserve crime scene evidence."

City Limits (New York City) - http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001SsWgn0tYYJ30Oxq1pk9oEhg9_7jHl7o1L5FI2WYI6DYbIAOGsQxhylDKBkOyAAJLjI1G3Ljee_qbG1EU63rLKcR4n6M35hL2JbZDTWzTKveTCmkC4x6RNMS7ip-AUU6LOF053TrUW0LHJ1jdDzBwTaHq4xZsBsjlPBZ-H_DS_TTYSW8afutyQPs3xXEyysRdvcqrm3DOH0VkPfPkHOIsZem3lirXn2xThAoFMmDy0tE=

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).