Edward Garry
Case Details
Served: 20 years
Year of Exoneration: 2018
Year of Conviction: 1997
Sentence: 25 to life
Conviction: Murder
County: Bronx
In February of 2018, EXI secured the acquittal and complete exoneration of Edward Garry in the 1995 murder of a retired Bronx police detective. Despite a case predicated on a false identification and one in which the actual shooter confessed and accomplices—who had escaped justice for years—came forward and exculpated Edward (one of the detectives who arrested Garry in 1995 even testified on his behalf), the Bronx District Attorney’s Office insisted on retrying the case after EXI had secured a new trial for Edward. When EXI obtained a full acquittal in 2018, it took the jury only 30 minutes to decide, ending almost a quarter century of injustice. After the not guilty verdict was rendered, tearful jurors approached Edward to tell him they were sorry for the injustice he had suffered.
Sadly, Edward passed away in April 2020. We are thankful he got to experience freedom, but it was too little, and too late.
