Emel McDowell, 50, has spent 19 years behind bars for the 1990 murder of 19-year-old Jonathan Powell after a fight at a Bedford-Stuyvesant house party.
McDowell, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was wrongfully convicted in 1992, and he was sentenced to 22 years to life in prison.
McDowell finally got a court hearing in Dec 2009; but even then, prosecutors were unable to admit he was wrongly convicted. Instead, they offered him a manslaughter plea in exchange for getting out of jail. He took it. As a result, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez will ask a judge to vacate the conviction, before a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge.
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