After 19 years in prison, NY man cleared in mother’s killing
Posted January 24, 2019 7:09 pm.
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NEW YORK — A New York man who spent 19 years in prison after being accused as a teenager of stabbing his mother to death has been cleared of the charges.
Huwe (hyoo) Burton says he feels like a weight has been lifted off him after a Bronx judge threw out his conviction on Thursday. Burton was released on parole in 2009.
While he had his freedom, he says living with a wrongful conviction in the 1989 killing of his mother was “a lot to bear.”
Questioned at 16, Burton gave a confession he immediately recanted.
His Innocence Project lawyers and Bronx prosecutors say a re-investigation found detectives used problematic interview techniques now understood to generate false confessions.
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark says she doesn’t have confidence that Burton’s confession was true.
Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press
