Tuesday, March 24
11:30-12:30
Room A-112

Huwe Burton was wrongfully convicted and spent 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit before he was released on parole in 2009. The investigation revealed an Huwe was wrongfully convicted after Career Detectives used flawed interrogation techniques that produced unreliable and false confessions. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett vacated the 1991 murder conviction of Huwe Burton. Justice Barrett based his decision on findings by the Bronx District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) that detectives from the 47th precinct had coerced Burton into falsely confessing to murdering his mother when he was just 16 years old.