Vacated, Reinstated — How New York Took Back a Man’s Freedom: The Story of Baby Sam

Send us Fan Mail For more than 33 years, Samuel “Baby Sam” Edmondson lived inside a conviction the courts would later acknowledge was broken. In 2022, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge vacated that conviction after finding unreliable witnesses, suppressed evidence, and investigative misconduct tied to NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella. Baby Sam walked free and began rebuilding his life. Three years later, the State of New York reinstated part of that same conviction — without a new trial — sending ...