The retired Philadelphia detectives are brought to trial in the event of meinheid, which comes from the 2016 murder procurement

Philadelphia (AP)-Drei-Technical Detective in Philadelphia are in a case in a case in which the police should be held responsible for alleged misconduct in relief.

Opening statements began on Tuesday. It is an extremely unusual case, since the men are now between 75 and 80 years old and face prison periods when they are convicted. They were all retired when a rape and murder case was reproduced by the early nineties in 2016. They were called back to testify and started the five -year clock to raise the indictment.

The district prosecutor of Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, who often sued the police during his career as a lawyer as a lawyer of civil rights, accused the former detective Martin Devlin, Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski 2021, days before the borders.

The case comes from the rape and murder of an older woman in 1991. A 20-year-old neighbor, Anthony Wright, spent two decades in prison before DNA tests seemed to remove him from the crime. His conviction was thrown away, but Krasner's predecessor decided to regain him.

“This was remarkable,” said Maurice Posley, a senior researcher in the National Registry of Exonerations, about the repetition of 2016. “There was a DNA exclusion and they said they would still try.”

The most important piece of evidence was Wright's confession. His lawyers argued that it was forced. The police denied it.

But asked to write down the nationful confession in real time, as Devlin said that he did it at the time-the murder detective once described gave up after only a few words. The jury quickly said.

Krasner competed in office in 2018 and concentrated on the police accountability. He arrested the detectives directly under the wire in August 2021.

Santiago and Devlin are accused of lying on the confession. Santiago and Jastrzembski are accused of being lied when they deny that they know about the DNA problem. Jastrzembski is accused of finding the victim's clothing in Wright's bedroom.

All three men have not guilty. Devlin is now 80 years old, Jastrzembski is 77 years old and Santiago 75 years old. You will be convicted of up to seven years in prison if you are convicted of mine.

Her lawyers asked the state's Supreme Court to reject the case, but the court has so far refused to intervene. The defense said that the Grand Jury, who heard the case, heard the panel that the detective in the story “committed mge … and defeated statements from people”.

Wright, who had spent 25 years in prison, received an agreement of almost 10 million US dollars from the city.