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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 file photo, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson speaks during a press conference in New York where he said he would ask a judge to throw out the convictions of David McCallum and the late Willie Stuckey, saying their murder convictions hinged on made-up confessions peppered with details seemingly supplied by police. As Brooklyn's top prosecutor, Thompson became known perhaps as much for the convictions he disavowed as the ones he got. Thompson, who died of cancer Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, during his first term, agreed to overturn 21 often decades-old convictions while reviewing more than 100 in one of the most ambitious efforts of its kind nationwide. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York prosecutor was trailblazer on reviewing convictions

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 15, 2016, photo, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson speaks during a news conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The family of Thompson said he has died after a battle with cancer, just days after announcing he would be undergoing treatment. Thompson died Sunday, Oct. 9. He was 50. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson dies at 50 from cancer

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Brooklyn district attorney says he’s battling cancer

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FILE- In this April 28, 2014 file photo, Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York speaks during a news conference in New York. President Obama chose Loretta Lynch as attorney general on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, which would make her the first black woman in the position. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYC prosecutor eyed for US attorney general

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Brooklyn DA to spend $1M to review convictions

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FILE- This undated file photo provided by the New York City Police Department on April 9, 2014, shows Officer Dennis Guerra. Prosecutors in New York have indicted a 16-year-old boy on a second-degree murder charge for setting the April 6 fire that killed Guerra and critically injured his partner as they responded to the blaze set in a Coney Island apartment building. Marcell Dockery faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/NYPD, File)

Murder charge for teen in police officer’s death

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Jonathan Fleming, hugs his attorney Anthony Mayol while his other attorney Taylor Koss applaud in Brooklyn's Supreme court, after a judge declared him a free man on Tuesday April 8, 2014 in New York. Fleming, who spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for murder, was cleared of a killing that happened when he was 1,100 miles away on a Disney World vacation in 1989. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Man cleared of NYC murder after 25 years in prison

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Prosecutors to dismiss NYC extortion case

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Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, listens as her lawyer Kenneth Thompson speaks to the media following a meeting at the Manhattan prosecutor's office on Aug. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

Prosecutors seek to dismiss Strauss-Kahn charges

By Jennifer Peltz and Tom Hays - Associated Press