Overview

• Brian Kendall was wrongly identified at age 17 after helping police at the scene of a Flatbush pool hall shooting in February 1988.
• Conviction Review Unit investigators uncovered 911 logs and witness statements that contradicted the original account.
• Kendall pleaded guilty without access to exculpatory material and served 16 years before being deported to Guyana.
• His case is the Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit’s 41st exoneration since its launch.
• Kendall appeared remotely from Guyana for the vacatur hearing and is seeking to return to the US with his record cleared.