Court orders review of case against Boston cop

Conley was convicted in June 1998 of lying to a grand jury about what he saw in the moments preceding a brutal bating of a black police officer, Michael Cox, by fellow police officers who mistook him for a fleeing murder suspect on Jan. 25, 1995. In September 1998, Conley was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison.
The judge who presided over that trial subsequently ruled that Conley deserved a new trial because of