Vincent “Vince” Ellerbe, James Irons, and Thomas “Tommy” Malik will be cleared for the 1995 arson murder of Harry P. Kaufman after Brooklyn District Attorney BrooklynDA moved to vacate the convictions earlier this month. The trio was sentenced to [...]
On Nov. 26, 1995, two men killed the subway token booth attendant Kaufman in a Bed-Stuy station while he was putting in overtime hours to save up for his son’s future college costs. Irons was accused of serving as the killers’ lookout and pressed by detectives to implicate Ellerbe and Malik. The three “confessed” and were subsequently convicted.
The review says lead detectives Louis Scarcella and Stephen Chmil fed Irons information for his confession while a key witness who identified Malik was previously convinced another pair of suspects were the killers. And significant details of the trio’s confessions were found veritably false and likely coerced.
“We have a wrongful conviction problem,” he said. “There were unscrupulous prosecutors who would do anything to get somebody convicted. They didn’t care what the charges were, [they didn’t] care if you were innocent or guilty. They simply used to convict. And I remember that clearly, because when I was 20 years old, I was accused of a shooting that I did not commit.”
But leaving the outside as a teenager in 1995 and returning to a world of smart fridges, face-recognition lock screens and self-driving cars is quite the time portal.
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