Thagard v. Lauber

ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Jerome Thagard ("Plaintiff") commenced this civil rights action against former City of Buffalo Police Department Detective Mark Lauber ("Defendant"), alleging causes of action for malicious prosecution and the deprivation of his right to a fair trial pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Dkt. 1). Specifically, Plaintiff claims that Defendant conducted materially defective identification procedures concerning two of the three eyewitnesses to the murder of Joseph Northrup ("Northrup") and then failed to disclose those defects,…