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It’s official: Brooklyn man jailed for shooting he didn’t commit is cleared

A Brooklyn man who served two years behind bars for a crime he did not commit was officially exonerated today.

Lawrence Williams was found guilty at a jury trial in 2010 of shooting a man during a stick-up inside a Coney Island housing project and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

But later efforts by defense attorneys who believed he was wrongly convicted eventually established that witnesses had misidentified Williams as the gunman — helped in part by DNA evidence from clothing left at the robbery scene.

Williams was released from prison this past April after prosecutors acknowledged that he was “probably innocent” of the 2008 shooting of Alberto Ortiz.

Defense lawyer Lisa Napoli informed authorities that a Rikers Island inmate named Taevon Hutchinson had confessed to shooting and robbing Ortiz.

Supreme Court Judge Michael Gary officially cleared the 36-year-old Williams of the robbery today after an independent probe by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office supported the findings of Williams’ defense attorneys.

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