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Was Andre Hatchett’s conviction reversed?

Feb 11, 2022 · (Photo of Andre Hatchett and Innocence Project attorney Seema Saifee courtesy of Innocence Project) Shortly before midnight on February 18, 1991, the body of 38-year-old Neda Mae Carter was found naked and beaten in Monroe Street Park in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Was Hatchett on crutches when he committed the crime?

Mar 10, 2016 · But a quarter century later, Andre Hatchett was a free man. The district attorney overturned his conviction. As CBS2's Ilana Gold reported, there …

Why did George Hatchett go to jail?

Mar 10, 2016 · Hatchett, 49, has been serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the February 1991 killing of Neda Mae Carter, who was strangled and beaten. She was 38 and lived in a rooming house where Hatchett ...

How old was Andre Hatchett when he saw Carter?

"Andre Hatchett was wrongly convicted in 1992 of a 1991 murder convicted in Brooklyn, New York. Hatchett was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. In January newly elected Kings County District Attorney Ken Thompson revitalized the office's Conviction Integrity Unit.

Hatchett spent half of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit largely due to inadequate defense, a single unreliable witness, and exculpatory evidence that was not disclosed to the defense. He was the 19th person to be exonerated under Brooklyn D.A. Ken Thompson's Conviction Integrity Unit

On the motion of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, a Brooklyn judge reversed the murder conviction of Andre Hatchett on March 10, 2016 after wrongly serving 25 years.

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