Plus a Danish heist, a false prophet, a Lawn Guyland grifter, and much more in this longreads ten-pack.

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Friends, this buffet of ten genre longreads barely makes a dent in our budget doc -- but, to continue belaboring this symbology, I thought I ought to serve it before it got any colder. I've gift-linked where I could, and there's a representative snippet under each hed to get you started.

Brooklyn prosecutors see exonerations dip amid NYC and nationwide decline, data show (Willow Higgins for Gothamist) // "Elizabeth Felber, the supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Wrongful Conviction Unit, said it seems like both prosecutors and judges are increasingly worried about opening the floodgates of wrongful convictions.