People v. Irizarry

OPINION OF THE COURT

David S. Zuckerman, J.

Recent media reports have depicted numerous prisoners being exonerated after many years of incarceration.1 Often, the exonerations turn on newly discovered evidence, DNA examinations, misidentifications, and/or witness recantations.

The instant defendant has been incarcerated for 15 years and asserts that he, too, was wrongfully convicted. He seeks postjudgment relief on two grounds: that he is actually innocent of the crimes charged and that he has obtained newly discovered evidence which would have changed the result had it been presented at his…