The Role of James Burke in the Pius Case

All four defendants were eventually released amid a complicated set of appeals and plea deals. By the mid 1980s, the New York state Court of Appeals had reversed at least 10 homicide convictions because of improperly obtained confessions. After reading about the quadroirconvictions in May of 1981, New York journalist Jesse Cornbloot sensed something was a miss within the justice system in Suffolk County.