When conviction integrity units exonerate the innocent, prosecutors escape blame

The call came one morning last year as Renay Lynch sat alone in her living room, organizing papers from her more than 25 years in prison for a memoir she hoped to write. Now Lynch had an ending.

“You are fully exonerated,” her lawyer said.

Lynch had been waiting to hear those words in the months since her defense team began negotiating with the Erie County District Attorney’s Office over a motion to reverse her decades-old murder and robbery convictions…

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