Terrell Eleby, a Brooklyn native incarcerated in New York’s Shawangunk Correctional Facility, wrote to a conviction review unit in Kings County in 2013, asking it to reinvestigate his murder and assault convictions. He claimed in part that police had threatened witnesses to keep them from testifying in his favor.
A decade would pass before he learned the unit rejected his application.
Chad Richards, currently behind bars at the same facility for possessing and selling cocaine, sought a conviction review from a similar unit in Ulster County in 2019. It promised to follow up with him in the “near future.”…