It took five trials, but on Sept. 12, Selwyn Days was acquitted of a grisly 1996 double murder in Westchester County for which he has spent 16 years in jail based on a false confession he provided to police.
For the past decade, Glenn Garber, founder of the nonprofit Exoneration Initiative, which focuses on innocence cases that are not based on DNA evidence; and Roberto Finzi, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, have been at Days’ side. Rebecca Freedman of the Exoneration Initiative and Paul Weiss associates Jonathan Bodansky and Justin Wiley also worked on the case.
