New York's AG Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Politics Got in the…

New York's AG Wanted to Review Innocence Claims. Politics Got in the…

Anthony DiPippo was in his prison cell one day in 2014 when he spotted a letter on the floor, lying beyond his reach on the other side of the bars. He noticed a logo: the New York Attorney General’s Office. That’s the one, DiPippo thought. He’d been waiting to hear from a department within the attorney general’s office that investigates wrongful conviction claims. Nearly two decades earlier, as a teen in the Hudson Valley, DiPippo was convicted …

New York’s AG wanted to review innocence claims. Prosecutor politics got in the way.

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for its newsletter here. Anthony DiPippo was in his prison cell one day in 2014 when he spotted a letter on the floor, lying beyond his reach on the other side of the bars. He noticed a logo: the New York Attorney General’s Office. That’s the one, DiPippo thought. He’d been waiting to hear from a department within the attorney …