Two Men Found Guilty Of Activist Malcolm X Murder Exonerated
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Calling the prosecution of the high-profile murder a "miscarriage of justice," Judge granted the exonerations of Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, to a burst of applause from those in the courtroom.
A New York judge on Thursday threw out the convictions of two men who spent decades in jail for the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.
Calling the prosecution of the high-profile murder a "miscarriage of justice," Judge Ellen Biben granted the exonerations of Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, to a burst of applause from those in the courtroom.
"There can be no question that this is a case that cries out for fundamental justice," Biben told the court before ordering the convictions be vacated, a move that rewrites the history of one of the US civil rights movement's deepest wounds.
"I regret that this court cannot fully undo the serious miscarriages of justice in this case and give you back the many years that were lost," the judge said to Aziz and the family of Islam.
