FILE - In this Jan. 19, 1988 file photo, Charles Hynes, right, special prosecutor in the Howard Beach trial, waits to add his comments as the Rev. Al Sharpton, left speaks at a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a Baptist Church in New York. Hynes broke onto the national scene in the 1980s as a skilled prosecutor who won convictions in the racially-charged killing of a black teenager in Howard Beach, Queens. But a stunning wave of misfortune is now threatening to leave Hyne's decades-long legacy in tatters. (AP Photo/David Bookstaver, File)