The new president of the New York State Bar Association announced Monday night that the association was launching a task force on wrongful convictions, revisiting an issue that it last studied a decade ago.

Michael Miller, who made his remarks immediately after being installed as bar association president, said that former state Supreme Court Justice Barry Kamins, one of the name partners in Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, will co-chair the task force along with former Court of Appeals Judge Robert Smith of Friedman, Kaplan, Seiler & Adelman.