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Leonard Mack

Westchester native free at last after living with tag of falsely raping a teen 47 years ago

Westchester native free at last after living with tag of falsely raping a teen 47 years ago

A Westchester man who was falsely jailed for raping a teenage girl nearly 50 years ago couldn’t help but hug the judge after she acquitted him of the charges in an emotional hearing. Leonard Mack’s incarceration is regarded as the longest wrongful conviction in U.S. history to be overturned by new DNA evidence. He gained…

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