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This is the 23rd conviction vacated by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Conviction Review Unit.

A judge ruled that former detective Louis Scarcella likely fabricated a confession that led to the defendant's conviction.

The man, David Ranta, was awarded $6.4 million in an out-of-court settlement.

One brother has served 21 years in prison; another was paroled in 2007, and the third died behind bars over a decade ago.

David Ranta spent 23 years in a maximum security facility after being convicted of shooting Williamsburg rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in the head during a botched robbery.

The decision could save the city "tens of millions" of dollars each year.

Investigators uncovered evidence that shady NYPD detective Louis Scarcella coached witnesses and beat a confession out of him.

In keeping with many of the cases presided over by Detective Louis Scarcella, holes in the 20-plus-old case have since been discovered.

The key witness in a 1995 murder case of a 4-year-old girl says he was coached by police into testifying against the wrong man.

Louis Scarcella, who helped wrongfully put a man in prison for 23 years for a murder he did not commit, has been under scrutiny by the DA's office for the past six months.