FILE  In this Oct. 28, 2016 file photo, President of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Patrick Lynch, left, and New York City Police Department's Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters Lawrence Byrne hold a press conference after addressing the parole hearing for the four men convected in 1988 killing of NYPD Officer Edward Byrne, in New York. Byrne, the NYPD's top lawyer during a fraught period that followed a court ban on officers frisking people without cause, the chokehold death of Eric Garner and the revelation that police spied on law-abiding Muslims after 9/11, has died. He was 61. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)