ALBANY, N.Y. — A formerly incarcerated Albany County resident sued the city, government and police officers after he spent more than five years in prison on an attempted murder conviction, which was overturned in 2021 after an appeals court agreed that the jury should not have been shown a prejudicial video of his interrogation. His federal claims are timely, so they survive, but the government agents are immune from his arguments that the prosecution purposefully misled the jury.
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