ProPublica Presents, Criminal Injustice: The Best Reporting on Wrongful Convictions
By Theodoric Meyer and Christie Thompson ProPublica In 1991, an unemployed printer named David Ranta was convicted of killing a Hasidic rabbi in Brooklyn. Last week, Ranta was released from the maximum-security prison in which he’d spent nearly 22 years, after almost every piece of evidence used to convict him fell away. The New York…