Legal Opinion
Moore v. Dormin
New York Supreme Court
Decided July 25, 1997PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
David B. Saxe, J.
When an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) publishes the contents of sealed Grand Jury testimony after a defendant has been acquitted, can the vindicated defendant sue the ADA for civil damages based on defamation or constitutional violations?
The events out of which this action arose began on March 17, 1992. Plaintiff Ronald Moore, a police officer with the New York City Police Department, was driving to work when, he asserted, four individuals threw objects at his automobile. He pursued them, and caught two of them (on-duty officers captured the others),…
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