{"active":false,"first_name":"John","last_name":"Duggan","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"047 DET","id":"47det"},"shield_no":3317,"ended_date":"2010-02-18","taxid":"891480","complaint_ids":[9301591,9102534,8803658,8801505],"appt_date":"1987-01-20","lawsuits":[{"name":"Wagstaffe, Everton vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-01-21","disposition_date":"2017-05-26","payout_amount":11428125,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV07089","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Duggan, John","summary":"In 1992, plaintiff was wrongly targeted and framed by police defendants for a 1992 murder he knew nothing about and had nothing to do with. As a result of defendants' misconduct and intentionally inadequate investigation, he was convicted of kidnapping the murder victim. On January 2, 1992, detectives from the 75th precinct (including Brooks, Wright, and Curran) fabricated a statement from a police informant implicating plaintiff in the crime, bolstered it with another false statement from the victim's close friend, and coerced both the informant and friend into falsely identifying a vehicle as the one used in the crime. On January 3, 1992, PO Curran sought a warrant to search the car, despite knowing that the identification of the car was fabricated. The police defendants then hid their misconduct, falsely representing that the informant was the original source of plaintiff's name, even though records show that defendants were focusing on plaintiff before they ever spoke to the informant. These records were intentionally withheld from the defense at the time of trial. The police also ignored other leads in order to falsely implicate plaintiff in the crime. They buried and withheld evidence that contradicted their made-up version of the crime (including evidence that the vehicle at issue was parked elsewhere at the time of the crime, evidence of the unreliability of the police informant). The police defendants' conduct was the direct result of the conduct of their supervisors, including Sgt. Michael Race and John Doe #1. Despite these fabrications, the judge threw out the murder charge as the evidence was weak, but plaintiff was convicted of second degree kidnapping and sentenced to 12.5 to 25 years. In 2010, an appellate court found that the prosecution had violated Brady by not timely disclosing the investigation of plaintiff that preceded the informant's purported identification; the court stated this supported an inference that the convictions were obtained by way of fraud and perjury, and vacated plaintiff's conviction. 16 years after plaintiff's conviction, DNA evidence located on January 20, 2009, confirmed that plaintiff had nothing to do with the crime. Due to defendants' misconduct, plaintiff spent nearly 23 years in prison. He maintained his innocence throughout this time.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.379062/gov.uscourts.nyed.379062.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4520673/wagstaffe-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Connor, Reginald vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-01-12","disposition_date":"2017-05-26","payout_amount":7950000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV07079","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Duggan, John","summary":"On January 1, 1992, after 3:00 AM, teenager Jennifer Negron was beaten, strangled, stabbed, and dumped from a vehicle into a street corner about a mile from her house, where she was discovered around 6:00 AM, nude from the waste down, wearing a blood-stained top. This case is about the framing of Negron's neighbor, Plaintiff Reggie Connor, for this murder.  Plaintiff, who was witnessed driving and stopping to talk with a group of people, including the victim, spent New Year's Eve with his family at Mount Hebron Church and, after a drive, he returned to spend the night at his parents house.  Later that day, around 2:00 PM, Negron's aunt, Margie Rivera, filed a missing persons report with NYPD, prompting Defendant Officer Duggan and Defendant Detective Wright to regard Negron as \"Homicide 1.\" Later on January 1, 1992, Detective Wright canvassed Negron's apartment building and listened to one neighbor (Lydia Valdez) describe hearing a struggle outside the building around 3:00 AM and another neighbor (Mayra Rodriquez) report seeing three unfamiliar males, two Black men and one possibly Latino man, in the lobby around 4:45 AM. Subsequently, Detective David Carbone requested photos of Plaintiff, and on January 2, requests were made for his arrest record. Later that night, around 10:30 PM, Brunilda Capella, a regular police informant, was fed information by Defendants Wright and Curran to generate a report that the name \"Reggie\" was involved in the Negron murder.  Capella falsely identified a 1983 brown Buick Skylark, registered to Betty Bonner, as the car Reggie was driving with two unidentified males on the night of the crime. In a conversation never disclosed to the defense, Betty Bonner told Police Defendants that she drove the Skylark to Holy Spirit Church of God in Christ, where she remained with her family for a \"Watch Night\" until around 4:30 AM or 5:30 AM, in the car that showed no evidence of damage. A search warrant for the Bonner car was issued on January 3, 1992 and forensic evidence was collected. In their singular focus on Plaintiff, Defendant Officers failed to interview victim's friends. Sergeant Michael Race supervised the investigation. Plaintiff was falsely arrested when he turned himself into the 75th precinct on January 31, 1992. At trial, the jury convicted Plaintiff and Mr. Wagstaffe with kidnapping in the first degree and the second degree and sentenced to 12.5-25 years in prison, in part due to Capella's false testimony. After Plaintiff and Wagstaffe filed a Brady motion to vacate, and the district court denied the motion, the appellate division granted the motion and vacated the convictions. DNA evidence also confirmed the actual innocence of Plaintiff and Mr. Wagstaffe, by demonstrating they were not in the Bonner car.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.379048/gov.uscourts.nyed.379048.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13343366/connor-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Duggan, John","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2012-09-13","disposition_date":"2016-03-25","court":"Supreme Court - New York","docket":"156211/2012","name":"Smith, Leon vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":65000}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"id":"4L98","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/4L98"}