Locked Up for a Crime He Didn’t Commit: The JJ Velazquez Case
Tabitha Kane covers the wrongful conviction of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez who was wrongfully convicted in 1999 for the 1998 murder of retired NYPD detective Albert Ward during a Harlem gambling-parlor robbery, despite no physical evidence connecting him to the crime and descriptions that didn’t match him. Witnesses initially misidentified him, and he spent over 23 years in prison before his sentence was commuted in 2021. A 2022 reinvestigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Post-Conviction Justice Unit found DNA on a betting slip did not match Velazquez, leading a judge to vacate his conviction in 2024. Velasquez now advocates for justice reform...
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