Overview

• Three men were exonerated this week after being wrongfully convicted based on coerced false confessions decades ago.
• The cases involved inconsistencies and detectives linked to other wrongful convictions like the Central Park Five.
• Since 1989, about 400 of the over 3,300 total exonerations nationwide have involved false confessions.
• Hundreds of convictions in Queens have been dismissed that were tied to convicted police officers.
• The exonerations come 30 years after the original false confession convictions.