Where Justice Goes to Die: How the Kings County DA's Office Wronged Gregory Ellis, As It Did Many Others

By Errol Louis

Every one of the 600 attorneys who work for the Kings County District Attorney should demand an explanation from their bosses about the case of Gregory Ellis, a man who has served 24 years in state prison for a murder he almost certainly did not commit.

As in so many of dozens of wrongful convictions in Brooklyn that we already know about, the conviction of Ellis for a homicide in 1994 relied on testimony from a shaky eyewitness. And as in other exonerations, the handling of that witness appears to have been tainted by coercion, false statements by prosecutors and unlawful failures to share evidence.

“The DA’s office is resisting making a full disclosure of the evidence they suppressed, all while our client languishes in the 24th year of a life sentence,” is how Jabbar Collins, a top-notch legal analyst, put it to me.

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Source: The New York Daily News