{"id":208906,"date":"2026-04-24T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:54:08","slug":"judge-to-decide-whether-to-vacate-conviction-in-1993-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208906\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to decide whether to vacate conviction in 1993 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, a Manhattan judge will decide whether to vacate the conviction of Harry Ruiz in connection with the 1993 murder case of 24-year-old drug dealer Emmanuel Felix.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1995 but was released on parole in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He has since been discharged from parole, but Ruiz has maintained his innocence since the time of his arrest. In 2024, the office of District Attorney Alvin Bragg began a new investigation of the case, with new evidence suggesting Ruiz\u2019s innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Kuby, the criminal defense attorney representing Ruiz, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Friday to discuss the case and other legal news.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week, a Manhattan judge will decide whether to vacate the conviction of Harry Ruiz in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3110,25,75,84,83,9,24,12,2370,63,3111,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-208906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-annika-pergament","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny1-interviews","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-the-rush-hour","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}