From [HERE] After spending more than two decades in prison saying he was not guilty of murder, a Brooklyn man won a new trial this week after an appellate court vacated his conviction based on evidence that another man might have committed the crime and that a key trial witness had recanted her testimony.

The ruling followed four years of legal wrangling by the man, Derrick Deacon, 57, who was convicted in 1989 of robbing and shooting to death Anthony Wynn in the hallway of an apartment building in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.

Glenn A. Garber, director of the Exoneration Initiative, a nonprofit group that represents people convicted of crimes who say they are innocent and has handled Mr. Deacon’s case, celebrated the decision. “We’re thrilled. Deacon has suffered a long time,” he said. “We’re hoping that the state is not going to retry him and if they do, we think he is going to get acquitted.” A spokesman from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said the office was reviewing the case.