Legal Opinion
Morales v. City of New York
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 6, 2014No. 14-CV-2896 (JMF)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JESSE M. FURMAN, District Judge:
This case is one of seven civil rights suits pending before this Court arising out of prosecutions in the 1990s for a pair of murders in the Bronx. Six people were convicted in New York State court of one or both of the murders, but all of their convictions have since been overturned, in part as a result of evidence that points to others as the perpetrators of at least one of the murders. All six of those criminal defendants have since brought suit against members of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) and other Defendants, alleging…
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