Legal Opinion
Benitez v. Lopez
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 16, 2018No. 17-CV-3827-SJ-SJBPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BULSARA, United States Magistrate Judge:
Plaintiff has moved to compel five categories of documents. The Court resolves the motion as follows:
1. Benitez first seeks the underlying files related to a 2003 arrest of Bernadette Johnson, the sole eyewitness in Benitez's criminal case, and copies of four complaints she filed with the NYPD. As to the 2003 arrest, Defendants first contend that the documents are not relevant to Benitez's claim of prosecutorial misconduct because the arrest is not Brady material. To do so, Defendants cite a number of cases they contend demonstrate that a single minor…
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