By Jonathan Levinson | OPB | August 14, 2022
Hayes’ case was handled by District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s new Justice Integrity Unit, a team that is reviewing past convictions and considering them for expungement, clemency or resentencing. Revisiting claims of innocence and speeding up the expungement process was a cornerstone of Schmidt’s election platform in 2020. But after a first attempt in 2021 to get the program up and running sputtered, Schmidt’s vision might finally be coming into focus.
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