Louis Scarcella
A Brooklyn man walked out of prison after serving 25 years of a wrongful conviction linked to a notoriously corrupt NYPD detective.
John Bunn, 39, was just 15 years old in 1991 when a jury found him and another teen, Rosean Hargrave, guilty of murdering an off-duty corrections officer and attempting to kill another man. The convictions were won with information from corrupt NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella.
The manslaughter conviction of a Brooklyn woman was overturned Tuesday after the borough’s district attorney’s office investigating the crooked ex-NYPD cop behind her arrest saw issues with the case. Vanessa Gathers has been free from prison since 2007 but the conviction that once marred her record has been removed, according to CBS New York. Gathers, 58, […]
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