Dennis Halstead, John Restivo and John Kogut
Posted By The Editors | December 29th, 2009 | Category: Exoneree of the Week | Comments Off
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Four years ago this week, Dennis Halstead, John Restivo and John Kogut were cleared of a murder conviction that had kept the three men behind bars for more than 16 years. The men were convicted on New York’s Long Island after Kogut allegedly confessed following an 18-hour police interrogation. He later said the confession was coerced.
In 2003, the Innocence Project, working with pro bono attorneys from Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and the Pace Law School Postconviction Project, obtained access to biological evidence that had not yet been tested in the case. The results proved that someone else committed the murder. The men’s convictions were overturned in 2003 and they were officially cleared in 2005.
Read more on Dennis Halstead’s, John Restivo’s and John Kogut’s cases.
Dennis Halstead
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