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- Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson's office announced Monday that he will exonerate Derrick Hamilton, who served 21 years in prison on a wrongful conviction after saying he was framed by an allegedly crooked police detective.
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Nov 19, 2019 · Published Nov. 19, 2019 Updated March 5, 2021. Twenty years ago, Derrick Hamilton was at his lowest point: locked in solitary confinement for a murder he insisted he did not commit. Over the...
On January 9, 2015, Thompson and Hamilton’s defense lawyer jointly asked that Hamilton’s conviction be vacated. The motion was granted and the charge was dismissed. By that time, the review had expanded to about 100 murder cases in Brooklyn, including about 60 of Scarcella’s cases.
Jan 10, 2015 · Derrick Hamilton spent 21 years in prison for the 1991 murder of Nathanial Cash in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. In prison, he steadfastly proclaimed his innocence knowing that this worked against his opportunities for early parole.
Jun 13, 2016 · Not long after Hamilton was exonerated, he filed two lawsuits—one against New York State, in the Court of Claims, the other against the city, the N.Y.P.D., Scarcella, and others, in federal...
Jan 15, 2015 · Brooklyn Man Serves As His Own Defense, Exonerated After Wrongful Conviction Overturned. January 15, 2015 cdaniel. Derrick Hamilton, 49, was exonerated on Friday after serving nearly two decades for a murder in Brooklyn that he did not commit.
Nov 28, 2019 · Nov 28, 2019. Twenty years ago, Derrick Hamilton was at his lowest point: locked in solitary confinement for a murder he insisted he did not commit. Over the next two decades, he slowly crawled...
Mar 9, 2022 · PUBLISHED 5:58 PM ET Mar. 09, 2022. In the 1990s, Derrick Hamilton of Brooklyn was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for a murder he didn’t commit. While in prison, he filed 10 post-conviction notices, which were all denied. After serving 21 years, Hamilton was paroled in 2014. In 2015, a court exonerated him.
