NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson says two men who’ve served years in prison were wrongfully convicted of a 1985 killing. He says they falsely confessed to kidnapping and shooting a man and taking his car.
Thompson tells The Associated Press he plans to ask a judge Wednesday to throw out the convictions of David McCallum and the late Willie Stuckey. Their cause was championed by one of the nation’s most famous exonerees, former prizefighter Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
Thompson says he’s concluded their confessions weren’t true. He says no other evidence links them to the abduction and killing of Nathan Blenner.
If a judge agrees, the 45-year-old McCallum could be released Wednesday. Stuckey died in prison in 2001.
Thompson’s predecessor reviewed the convictions and stood by them last year.
