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Rigging of evidence to secure convictions[edit]
Retired detective Louis Scarcella and his colleague Stephen W. Chmil rigged evidence to promote their own careers which led to imprisonment of dozens of innocents. District Attorney Charles J. Hynes reopened the cases of 56 people arrested by Detective Scarcella; at least five cases of Detective Chmil?s (out of 300 deemed probably wrongful) scrutinized by nonprofit Exoneration Initiative made clear that he "invented confessions, coached witnesses and persuaded others to change their descriptions of perpetrators to match the suspect in custody ? even in cases he worked without Detective Scarcella".[113] Examples of crimes that Scarcella cajoled other people into confessing to include:

David Ranta (for brutal 1990 slaying of a prominent rabbi) was exonerated on NY murder charge on March 23, 2013[114] and won a $6.4 million settlement from the City of New York in 2014.[115]
Nelson I. Cruz (1998 killing of a man in East New York, Brooklyn) was arrested at age 16 for murder. He insists he was not at the crime scene.
Crack-cocaine addict Jeffrey Campbell (charge: robbery of a shoe store in 1985) was pressured by the detectives to testify against their suspect, else they would set him up on a phony charge.
Valance Cole (charge: drug-related homicide of Michael Jennings 1985) was convicted. "In 1994, Mr. Campbell, dying of AIDS, suddenly recanted. He said prosecutors had promised to drop charges if he falsely blamed Mr. Cole for the murder. Detective Chmil, he said in a sworn statement, gave him a script.".[113] Campbell?s recantation was judged incredible and Cole stayed in prison. Years later, another judge acknowledged that Mr. Cole was ?probably innocent? but refused to overturn his conviction.
Teresa Gomez, a crack-cocaine addict who has since died, claimed to have seen several unrelated murders.
Three half-brothers, Alvena Jennette, Robert Hill and Darryl Austin, have had their murder convictions cleared by the Brooklyn DA in cases linked to Scarcella and Gomez in May 2014.[116]
The Legal Aid Society, which represents 20 of the people whose cases were reopened by the Brooklyn district attorney?s office, is concerned that the prosecutors? review is too narrow, because it is limited to cases in which Detective Scarcella testified in court.[citation needed]

Hynes?s office said it had added about five cases to the review since it was announced in May, but Hynes lost his re-election bid in November. The new district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, suggested during the race that he would be open to widening the scope of the review.[citation needed] Thompson is reviewing over 90 cases as of January 2015. However, in January 2015, Thompson announced that his office would endorse 21 disputed convictions, which include 18 by Scarcella.[117]