24 years later, a wrongfully convicted man is finally cleared
As Sundhe Moses sat in a Brooklyn courtroom more than 20 years ago, he insisted that he had been forced into confessing to a crime he didn't commit.
During his 1997 trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Moses testified that now-retired Detective Louis Scarcella beat him into confessing to the crime. After entering a guilty plea in the drug case, the judge sentenced Moses to a consecutive sentence because he was a two-time felon, increasing his stint to 16 1/2 years. He had been facing up to seven years if convicted at trial. He had to plead guilty to a felony because he was predicate felon.
Kuby and Busby first filed a motion with the Brooklyn District Attorney's revamped Conviction Review Unit as they were investigating more than 70 Scarcella-related convictions. In 2015, Moses' legal team decided to file a motion with a judge requesting an evidentiary hearing in the hope of getting the conviction tossed in favor of a new trial.
In June, Moses was offered the chance to plead guilty to a misdemeanor instead of a felony, but he would still have a criminal record.
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