{"id":14024,"date":"2020-06-24T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wrongfully-convicted-queens-man-exonerated-after-serving-25-years-for-murder\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T23:46:00","slug":"wrongfully-convicted-queens-man-exonerated-after-serving-25-years-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wrongfully-convicted-queens-man-exonerated-after-serving-25-years-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wrongfully convicted Queens man exonerated after serving 25 years for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Wrongfully convicted Queens man exonerated after serving 25 years for murder<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 23, 2020 |<\/span> 7:46pm <\/p>\n

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\n Samuel Brownridge is seen in a mugshot from the murder he was exonerated from today.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n In an emotional hearing, a judge Tuesday vacated the murder conviction of a Queens man who served 25 years in prison for a 1994 execution-style shooting he didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo many of you, this may look like a victory. But as I\u2019m before you today I cannot help but see all the loss \u2014\u00a0 but I also see hope. Hope for my future, hope for my family, hope for reform,\u201d said Samuel Brownridge, 45, as tears streamed down his face.<\/p>\n

The married father of three was released from prison in 2019 after spending more than half of his life locked up.<\/p>\n

Justice Joseph Zaya\u2019s eyes welled with tears as Brownridge spoke at the Queens Supreme Court hearing, which was conducted via Skype.<\/p>\n

Zaya vacated Brownridge\u2019s conviction on the grounds of innocence and dismissed the indictment based on a defense motion that Queens DA Melinda Katz supported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do believe it\u2019s important that I say how sorry we are for the miscarriage of justice, that grave injustice that occurred in this courthouse,\u201d Zayas told Brownridge. \u201cIt seems to me that almost everyone in the criminal justice system failed you in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brownridge was convicted based on two eyewitness identifications. But new evidence undermines the credibility of those accounts and implicates a dead violent felon, Garfield Brown, for the shooting of Darryle Adams, 32, on March 7, 1994, in St. Albans, officials said.<\/p>\n

A group of four men, one of whom was in a wheelchair, confronted Adams. The man in the wheelchair struck him in the head with a bottle then another member of the group shot him in the head. There was no app<\/a>arent motive for the crime, the Queens DA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Brown was killed in a shootout with police when they tried to apprehend him in connection to two unrelated homicides in 2002 shortly after he was featured on the TV show \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During the hearing, Katz called the wrongful conviction a \u201cdouble tragedy\u201d noting that the actual killer went on to commit other murders.<\/p>\n

Brownridge\u2019s lawyer Donna Aldea disclosed in her motion for dismissal damning evidence that had been withheld from the jury.<\/p>\n

Three men told police at the time that they were present for Adam\u2019s murder and fingered Brown, a violent felon, as the shooter. Days after the murder, Brown confessed to committing the killing to a pal.<\/p>\n

Brown also more closely resembled an eyewitness description of the shooter as a man in his mid-20s with a short fade haircut. Brownridge was just 18 and his hair wasn\u2019t short on the sides.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Aldea said that despite overwhelming evidence of Brownridge\u2019s innocence presented to the trial court and an appeals court after he was found guilty, his conviction was still repeatedly upheld.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a man who is wronged, betrayed and failed by our criminal justice system,\u201d she said, choking up.\u201d[Despite this] his spirit is not darkened by hate or by resentment. He is driven by hope, by love and by gratitude.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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