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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.
Anthony Broadwater was arrested by Syracuse police in October 1981 and charged with raping Alice Sebold. This is his mugshot. He was wrongly convicted and served 16 years in prison. Broadwater was finally exonerated in 2021. ... See MoreSee Less

The untold story of how race and incompetence doomed Anthony Broadwater to prison for Alice Sebold’s rape

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A series of white people in power played their parts as Syracuse's justice system railroaded a Black man for rape.
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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.
Blind in one eye and at risk of losing vision in the other, 58-year-old Reginald Randolph was sent to state prison to serve out a maximum of four years for taking dozens of boxes of cold medicine from two Duane Reade stores in 2018 after failing out of drug court. ... See MoreSee Less

Watch: Faith & Community Leaders Join Call for Clemency for Reggie Randolph

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Mr. Randolph is currently serving a state prison sentence of 2-4 years for stealing NyQuil.
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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.
Derek Chauvin sits in a prison cell. The other three officers on the scene when George Floyd was murdered now face a trial of their own. ... See MoreSee Less

Police Culture on Trial in Case Against Officers in Killing of George Floyd

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Derek Chauvin sits in a prison cell. The other three officers on the scene when George Floyd was murdered now face a trial of their own.
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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

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A partner in the Personius Melber LLC law firm, Melber is a graduate of Canisius College and University at Buffalo School of Law who teaches at the law school. ... See MoreSee Less

Buffalo lawyer Brian Melber will head statewide group of defense attorneys

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A partner in the Personius Melber LLC law firm, Melber is a graduate of Canisius College and University at Buffalo School of Law who teaches at the law school.
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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.

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Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program, Inc.
There were dozens of letters of support. Two were from correctional officers. One was from Sean Pica, the executive director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, where Bryant works in Sing Sing, helping formerly incarcerated men with reentry and connecting those on the inside with educational opportunities.There was a letter from an Albany pastor named the Rev. Charles Muller. Bryant started a fundraiser inside Sullivan Correctional Facility for Muller's gun buyback program in 2009. Sharon Content, executive director of Children of Promise, an afterschool and summer program for children with incarcerated parents, also wrote about her partnership with Bruce. He raised money inside prison to buy backpacks for kids in her program. But January 2020 came and went, and Bryant was not offered clemency. ... See MoreSee Less

Why NY's 'Poster Child For Clemency' Is Still Behind Bars - Law360

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The new year brought a familiar sense of disappointment for Bruce Bryant, as he sat in his cell in Sing Sing Correctional Facility and discovered he had once again been overlooked for clemency.
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