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Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Chief Heading to Private Practice

Then-Conviction Review Unit head Charles Linehan speaks in court as Sheldon Thomas is exonerated.

The head of Brooklyn’s vaunted Conviction Review Unit has left to create a small law firm specializing in wrongful conviction cases.  Charles Linehan, 54, quietly resigned Jan. 17 after a three-year stint in charge of the 16-person unit that has garnered national headlines for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.  During Linehan’s tenure, the unit exonerated […]

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