The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office will vacate hundreds of convictions that were secured based on testimony from corrupt cops, including NYPD narcotics officers who planted drugs on innocent suspects. Prosecutors appeared in court on Wednesday to request dismissals in 47 felony cases, and have plans to visit the Brooklyn Criminal Court later this month to ask for an additional 331 misdemeanor convictions to be vacated.
The cases are related to 13 NYPD officers that have been convicted of committing crimes while on duty. The vast majority of the convictions to be vacated were drug-related and involved illegal conduct including planting
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