Legal Opinion
Newton v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 27, 2010No. 07 Civ. 6211(SAS)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
Alan Newton was released from prison on July 6, 2006, after more than twenty-two years of incarceration for a rape and assault that DNA testing proved he did not commit. For eleven of those years, Newton repeatedly requested access to the rape kit that contained the ultimately exonerating DNA to no avail — not because Newton was not entitled to the rape kit, but because the government could not find it. As it turned out, the rape kit was in a safe storage location and within the City of New York’s (the “City”)…
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