Lawyer: Brooklyn prosecutors seek to void 3 murder convictions tied to ex-homicide detective
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A lawyer says the Brooklyn district attorney's office is seeking to void the murder convictions of three-half brothers who were convicted on evidence collected by a former homicide detective whose cases are under review.
The brothers' lawyer, Pierre Sussman, tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1hti9wc ) that prosecutors will ask a judge to vacate the convictions at a court hearing Tuesday.
The defendants, Alvena Jennette, Robert Hill and Darryl Austin, could become the first people connected to detective Louis Scarcella to be exonerated. Austin died in prison.
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Prosecutors have cast a critical eye on Scarcella's work after a judge threw out the conviction of a man accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990.
Last year, prosecutors began a review of several cases that Scarcella investigated.
Scarcella has denied wrongdoing.
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Information from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com