JUST IN: Manhattan DA Cy Vance moves to vacate convictions of two of the men convicted in connection with Malcom X's assassination. “I apologize for what were serious, unacceptable violations of law and the public trust.'
Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Civil Rights leader Malcom X, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is moving to vacate the convictions of two of the men convicted as accomplices.in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is moving to vacate the convictions of two of the men convicted as accomplices, his office said Wednesday.
"The events that led to my conviction and wrongful imprisonment should never have happened. Those events were the result of a process that was corrupt to its core -- one that is all too familiar -- even in 2021," Aziz said in a statement Wednesday.
Vance, Shanies Law and Innocence Project will file a joint motion on Thursday to vacate the 1966 convictions."The joint motion is the culmination of a collaborative reinvestigation of the case which began in January 2020 and unearthed new evidence of Mr. Aziz and Mr. Islam's innocence, including FBI documents that had been available at the time of trial but were withheld from both the defense and prosecution," the lawyers for Aziz and Islam said in a statement Wednesday.
On Jan. 25, 2011, Ray Wood, who was serving as an undercover police officer on the day of Malcolm X's death, wrote a letter in which he admitted he"participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to the advancement of my own black people."
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