NYC killing, Florida alibi; man may go free after 20 years

Both his lawyers and prosecutors now agree his then-attorneys didn’t do enough to track down Rosario’s alibi witnesses and enlist them in his defense.

“I’ve been in prison for 20 years for a crime I didn’t commit,” said Rosario, who had lost multiple appeals.

Rosario’s attorneys called his case an illustration of unreliable eyewitness testimony, bungled defense and the difficulty of fighting a guilty verdict.

Rosario, now 40, was arrested after two witnesses identified him from a police photo book as the man who’d shot Collazo in the head after an exchange of words on a Bronx street on June 19, 1996.