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Man indicted for spitting at 2 Jewish men, yelling antisemitic slurs, and throwing bottle 
A man was indicted on Monday for allegedly attacking Jewish men in separate incidents on the Upper West Side in June while making antisemitic remarks, prosecutors said.
New York’s ‘One-Man Innocence Project’ Is Finally Cleared Himself
He received an executive clemency in 2021 that left him free but not exonerated. His jailhouse lawyering helped lead to new evidence that got the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg Jr., to reinvestigate the case even though the office under his predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had declined in 2013 to vacate Mr. Velazquez’s conviction and opposed his attempts to raise new evidence.
Sing Sing actor JJ Velazquez exonerated after wrongful conviction
A New York judge on Monday formally vacated the homicide conviction of a man incarcerated for almost 24 years before starring in the award-winning movie Sing Sing about the rehabilitative effects of a prison arts program.
After 25 years, judge tosses murder conviction of Jon-Adrian Velazquez
Manhattan prosecutors joined a motion with Velazquez’s lawyers to vacate his conviction for murdering retired police officer Albert Ward in 1998, a crime that occurred when two people robbed a gambling parlor in Harlem.
Judge vacates Manhattan murder conviction for man accused of killing retired cop in 1998 homicide
A man who served nearly a quarter-century in prison for a retired police officer’s murder had his name cleared Monday thanks to updates in DNA forensic technology, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg announced.
NYC man who spent 27 years behind bars for ex-cop’s slay is exonerated thanks to DNA: ‘Lucky to be free’
A 48-year-old Manhattan man who spent more than half his life behind bars for the shooting death of a retired NYPD detective was freed Monday after he was cleared by new DNA evidence.
Manhattan District Attorney's Office