darcel clark's office tells the judge they now believe richard rosario did not receive a fair trial.ncede that the defendant did not receive effective assistance and counsel. you can sense the release of the defendant on his own recognizance. >> but he know he's not off the hook just yet. he still faces a possible retrial, and is due back in court in june to hear what the d.a. will do. >> the jury is still out on the d.a.'s office with regards to this wrongful conviction and i hope you would do the right thing tork exonerate me, because i've been in prison for 20 years for a crime i didn't commit. my family didn't deserve this. i didn't deserve this. neither about the victim or the victim's family. i hope this conviction is not just vacated, but exoneration is given to me. >> the ruling of the court, here by ordered, the motion to vacate. you are here by released. >> and just like that, unthinkable a few months earlier, richard rosario is now a free man. he walks out of the courthouse with his family, subdued, only interested in naming other inmates who he believes are innocent. >> f

as the press assembles in the courtroom, across the street, i meet with darcel clark, the bronx districtney. the first time anyone from that office has agreed to go on the record with me since i began looking into this case. >> i presided as a judge in this county for 13 of my 16 years on the bench. now i'm the chief law enforcement officer for the entire borough. >> you grew up right here. >> whole life of the bronx. i'm a daughter of the bronx. >> she's actually made history. she is the first african-american woman to be a district attorney in the state of new york. >> as we're sitting here right now speaking, folks from your office are driving richard rosario from prison to the courthouse to be released. >> yes. >> why are you doing that? >> well, before i took office, i met with the exoneration initiative about mr. rosario. and it came to my attention that they had an appeal and the answer was due. so before i did anything else on mr. rosario's case, i thought it was necessary to do the preliminary steps of investigating the case. or the allegations. he had an alibied defense that wa

as the press assembles in the courtroom, across the street, i meet with darcel clark, the bronx districtttorney. the first time anyone from that office has agreed to go on the record with me since i began looking into this case. >> i presided as a judge in this county for 13 of my 16 years on the bench. now i'm the chief law enforcement officer for the entire borough. >> you grew up right here. >> whole life of the bronx. i'm a daughter of the bronx. >> she's actually made history. she is the first african-american woman to be a district attorney in the state of new york. >> as we're sitting here right now speaking, folks from your office are driving richard rosario from prison to the courthouse to be released. >> yes. >> why are you doing that? >> well, before i took office, i met with the exoneration initiative about mr. rosario. and it came to my attention that they had an appeal and the answer was due. so before i did anything else on mr. rosario's case, i thought it was necessary to do the preliminary steps of investigating the case. or the allegations. he had an alibied defense tha