Legal Opinion
Merced v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 12, 1997No. 90 CIV. 2898(DC)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
On March 9, 1989, two unknown assailants shot plaintiff Diana Merced in the face outside her mother’s third-floor apartment in a New York City Housing Authority project in the Bronx. Plaintiff alleges that Joseph Na-vedo, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, was behind the shooting. Navedo was a known drug dealer, and plaintiff had been cooperating with the authorities in their efforts to prosecute him. The shooting occurred on the very day that plaintiff had been scheduled to testify against Navedo. Although the trial was adjourned at the last moment,…
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