A man who spent 17 years in prison after he was convicted of murder based partly on the police work of disgraced NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella will have his conviction overturned Tuesday, a Brooklyn district attorney’s spokeswoman said.
Roger Logan, 53, was sentenced to 25 years to life for the 1997 murder of Sherwin Gibbons in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the spokeswoman said.
But an investigation by DA Ken Thompson’s Conviction Review Unit found that the evidence against Logan was shaky — and that a woman who fingered Logan as the killer at trial was in police custody for much of the day the murder took place.
“The case was reviewed and it was determined that she had been in custody part of the time in question when she would have seen him,” the spokeswoman said.
Scarcella worked on Logan’s case but was not the primary investigator.
The Conviction Review Unit began a probe of about 50 cases investigated by Scarcella after David Ranta, who spent 23 years behind bars for killing a rabbi, had his conviction tossed in March 2013 amid allegations of misconduct by the controversial detective.
The Brooklyn DA will stand by 11 of the Scarcella cases it has reviewed, the spokeswoman said.
Logan would be the seventh wrongful conviction Thompson has vacated since he took office in January.
Three half-brothers were cleared for a 1985 murder after prosecutors said a crack-addicted witness Scarcella often used was unreliable. The other three were unrelated to the detective.
Scarcella has told The Post he never did anything wrong in his murder investigations.
“I never framed anyone in my life. You have to be a low devil to frame someone. I sleep well at night,” Scarcella has said.