ALBANY — A state appellate court has determined that a man whose murder confession was coerced by Albany detectives 27 years ago was “actually innocent” of the crime and should be further compensated after spending nearly two decades in prison.
The unanimous ruling by a five-judge panel in Albany overturns a decision issued last year by Court of Claims Justice Catherine E. Leahy-Scott, who had denied the claim filed against the state by 47-year-old Carl H. Dukes. He was wrongly convicted in 1999 of murdering a University at Albany student two years earlier as part of a plot — fabricated by police — to silence a witness.
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