Legal Opinion
Hicks v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 8, 2017No. 15-CV-04888 (PAC)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
HONORABLE PAUL A. CROTTY, United States District Judge:
Plaintiff TYRONE HICKS (“Hicks”) was convicted in 1999 in Bronx Supreme Court of attempted rape and attempted sodomy of a woman, “T.T.”1 He was sentenced to eight years and served his time. Four years after his release, however, Hicks’ conviction was vacated; he had been exonerated by exculpatory DNA evidence.
At Mr. Hicks’ trial, T.T. was the central witness; she identified Mr. Hicks as her assailant. Mr. Hicks asserts (as he did throughout his criminal proceedings) that the New York Police Department (NYPD) used improper…
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