The three men, wrongly convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco of Lynbrook and imprisoned for more than 17 years each, "were put through hell," one of their attorneys said Wednesday, only hours after Nassau prosecutors announced a new arrest in the 1984 crime.

Terry Maroney, a law professor at Vanderbilt Law School and one of the attorneys who challenged the conviction of one of the three, John Kogut, formerly of Island Park said: "Everyone suffers when somebody is wrongfully convicted, especially for a horrible crime like this ... It's terrible when the system makes so many mistakes that it compounds the original loss.

"It's very important to not just get somebody on a terrible crime, but to make sure we've got the right somebody because we don't want someone who did commit

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