Legal Opinion
Alvarez v. Ercole
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 18, 2014No. Docket No. 13-2828-prPublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-Appellee Julio Alvarez was sentenced in 2004 to 45 years’ imprisonment for shooting and killing Daniel Colon and wounding two others. At trial, Alvarez’s defense strategy was to show that the New York City Police Department investigation had been incomplete in ways that created reasonable doubt that the government had proved its case against him. In support of this argument, Alvarez sought to cross-examine the lead detective to show that the police had not investigated leads provided by a witness, Edwin Vasquez, whose tips were memorialized in a detective’s…
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