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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Conviction Integrity Unit's work in Queens
5:06:35
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DA Katz provides a brief overview of the Conviction Integrity Unit's work in reviewing and vacating past convictions where appropriate.
- Reports that 268 cases have been submitted for review by the Conviction Integrity Unit
- States that 122 convictions have been vacated
- Explains that some vacated convictions were due to issues with police officer testimony or subsequent convictions of officers for perjury
Melinda Katz
5:06:35
We have a CIU unit, two sixty eight cases have been submitted for CIU which is conviction integrity unit.
5:06:42
We vacated 122 of them and some of them are based on the fact that the police officer involved in the testimony either there was something wrong with their testimony or later on was convicted of perjury or something like that where I never, I didn't have any longer the confidence in that prosecution.
5:07:02
We have a program called Project Reset.