Private Investigator Tim McKinnel Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
The investigation into the Alan Hall miscarriage of justice case has exonerated crown lawyers of any wrong doing.
The Supreme Court last year cleared Mr Hall of the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton and declared a miscarriage of justice.
In 2018, journalist Mike Wesley-Smith provided Crown Law with new information showing a key witness statement was changed.
In the heavily redacted report released this morning, Nicolette Levy KC, found there was no failure by Crown lawyers to take appropriate steps to follow up the information, despite him having to wait another four years before his conviction was overturned.
But Geoff Hall, brother of Alan Hall, told Morning Report that if Crown Law had been proactive about the new evidence, his brother could have been freed earlier than the 19 years he spent in jail.
The Hall family's investigator Tim McKinnel spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
