Often, a client of potential police misconduct will have been arrested on the basis of an allegation made by a civilian, not a police officer (e.g., a claim of assault that the police did not witness). In these instances, it cannot be argued that the police fabricated the evidence against the client, since the allegations, right or wrong, were
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Pot dealer who shot at cops near Manhattan housing project Luis Martinez, 26, faces 25 years to life for firing three times at cops during the February 2012 shootout with uniformed cops near the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side. BY BARBARA ROSS , SHAYNA JACOBS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, January 31, 2014 JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK
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Kings County, New York. Our client was enjoying the J"Ouvert Festival with family and friends in Brooklyn, when the group was approached by police. All the male members of the group were searched without probable cause and subjected to verbal abuse. Finding nothing illegal, the police left, only to be followed by another set of officers who
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$1,400,000 settlement on the eve of trial in an excessive force case for man who suffered an orbital fracture when beaten by the
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New York Times - July 08, 2014 BOSTON — An F.B.I. agent told a federal court here on Tuesday that Azamat Tazhayakov, a college friend of the surviving Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, agreed that a backpack found in Mr. Tsarnaev’s dorm room in the days after the bombing should be thrown away. It was the second day of the
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