Coerced False Confession Leads To Decades In Prison For 2 New York Men

CNN
Feb. 09, 2014



Imagine more than two decades in a maximum security prison. Add to that the fact that you're accused of killing your mother, your sister and your cousin.

As if that's not enough, you were the one who discovered their lifeless, bloodied bodies when you opened the door to your home one night.

If it's hard to imagine what that's like, Yarbough will tell you.

After years in Attica's maximum security prison among New York's toughest criminals, he left its high, gray walls behind him Thursday.

"It was a nightmare," Yarbough told CNN's Piers Morgan in an exclusive interview. "Twenty-one years and seven months was more like 42 years and seven months, when you know you're in prison for something you didn't do."

After reviewing DNA evidence, District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson said the previous convictions for the 1992 murders in Brooklyn would most likely not stand up in court again and agreed the two men should be freed.

"Anybody looking at this evidence with an open mind would see that there is no chance in the world that Tony murdered his mother and these two little girls," his lawyer Zachary Margulis-Ohuma said.

And that goes beyond the DNA evidence alone. Margulis-Ohuma was convinced Yarbough was innocent years before.

At least one false confession detectives coerced out of a scared teenage boy over 20 years ago led to the convictions.

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