A man who was wrongfully convicted for an East Harlem sexual assault in 1985 was exonerated due to recently found DNA evidence. His felony conviction was vacated following a joint investigation by the Innocence Project and the Manhattan District Attorney Office’s Conviction Integrity Program. Rafael Ruiz was released from prison in 2009 after serving a…

Two men who were wrongly convicted of raping a woman 27 years ago were exonerated in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 7 after serving over two decades in prison. Gregory Counts, 46, and VanDyke Perry, 48, had been falsely charged with rape, sodomy and kidnapping in 1991. Perry was released in 2001 after spending 11…