The Manhattan district attorney and lawyers for the two men moved to vacate the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam in the 1965 killing, and Manhattan judge Ellen Biben tossed out the verdicts.Īziz and Islam – then known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson – were convicted in 1966 and spent about two decades in prison, all the while maintaining their innocence. Two of three men convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X have been exonerated after a New York judge dismissed their convictions Thursday.
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