In vacating a murder conviction and barring prosecutors from retrying the case, a federal judge has lashed out at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office for failing to take responsibility for its prosecutors’ alleged misconduct.
At a contentious, 90-minute habeas corpus hearing yesterday morning, Eastern District Judge Dora L. Irizarry noted that petitioner Jabbar Collins, a renowned jailhouse attorney, had uncovered numerous documents while serving his 34-years-to-life sentence suggesting that prosecutors had withheld evidence, coerced witnesses and lied to the court and the jury.
