{"active":false,"first_name":"Michael","last_name":"Donnelly","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"043 DET","id":"43det"},"shield_no":954,"taxid":"883801","complaint_ids":[9000342,8902377,8804167,8702902,8700912,8700296,8604576,8504756],"appt_date":"1984-07-16","lawsuits":[{"name":"Morales, Cynthia vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-04-04","disposition_date":"2014-10-06","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"14CV02896","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On December 13, 2012, Plaintiff’s father was released from prison after having been wrongfully convicted and serving over seventeen years.  Plaintiff was 2 years old when he was accused, and had lived most of her life without a father present.  Defendant Officers Thomas Aiello, Annabelle Nieves, Sean O’Toole, Robert Johnson and Nancy Killian are alleged to have hidden various pieces of evidence, disregarded other evidence, perjured their testimony and created false statements and evidence.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.426123/gov.uscourts.nysd.426123.19.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5495596/morales-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Ayers, Devon vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-03-19","disposition_date":"2016-04-18","payout_amount":8000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV01655","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On March 16, 1995 Plaintiff was arrested when he voluntarily surrendered at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx after being informed the police were looking for him. He was one of seven defendants charged in two murder cases - the murder of Denise Raymond on January 17, 1995 and the murder of Baithe Diop on January 19th 1995. Plaintiff was tried for the murders and sentenced to 50 years to life.  Plaintiff has always maintained his innocence. No physical evidence tied any of the defendants to either murder or to each other. The two detectives on the case Defendants Detective Donnelly and Detective Aiello coerced witnesses to testify against the plaintiff. They also withheld exculpatory evidence. Later the testimony was recanted and it came to light that two other men had actually committed the murders. Plaintiff was released from prison on January 23, 2013.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23607997-2016_ayers_14cv01655","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13245418/ayers-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Cosme, Michael vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-03-13","disposition_date":"2016-04-21","payout_amount":8000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV01653","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On February 3, 1995, the Plaintiff was arrested, and then wrongly incarcerated on the false charges of two murders, that happened two days apart. 18 years later, the Plaintiff was exonerated.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.424378/gov.uscourts.nysd.424378.2.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4353380/cosme-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Perez, Carlos vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-03-13","disposition_date":"2016-04-15","payout_amount":8000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV01654","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On February 10, 1995 Plaintiff was sitting on the stoop of his apartment building when he was swarmed by plainclothes police officers. Plaintiff was then arrested. He was initially told he was being arrested for bank robbery but was later told he was being arrested for murder.  Plaintiff was accused of 2 murders, and convicted on March 5, 1997. This conviction was false.  Plaintiff's convictions were ultimately vacated and he was released from prison on January 23, 2013.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23686860-2016_perez_14cv01654","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13245417/perez-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Field, Eric A/k/a Glisson, Eric vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-03-05","disposition_date":"2016-04-21","payout_amount":8000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV01378","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On January 19, 1995, Baithe Diop, a livery [sic] cab driver was murdered by two passengers on Cross Ave. in the Bronx.  In late January 1995 Miriam Taveras, a homeless woman, agreed to work with the police in exchange for housing for herself and her son.  The meetings with the police involved Taveras, Hanley and Cathy Gomez (friends of Taveras's), and Detectives Michael Donnelly, Annabelle Nieves, and Thomas Aiello.  The meetings took place at the end of January and continued through mid-February 1995.  \n\nIn the meetings, the detectives (led by Michael Donnelly and including Nieves/Aiello) provided information to Cathy Gomez (16 years old), Hanley Gomez (14), and Taveras (known to use crack-cocaine) for the alleged purpose of them providing false statements and evidence against five young men from the neighborhood and City Watkins in the Diop and Raymond murders conceived and controlled by Charles McKinnon.  McKinnon was indicted and tried for the murders but acquitted.\n\nDetective Donnelly was seen giving money to the Gomez's mother and it was believed he also gave money to Taveras.  Taveras and her son were also provided public housing.\n\nFeb 3 1995 O'Toole arrested Glisson for murder of Diop.  March 6, 1995 Glisson indicted for Diop murder with five others.  \n\nGlisson remained in Rikers Island Prison through his trial in September of 1997.  Detectives Donnelly, Aiello, and Nieves knew Taveras could not have witnessed the Diop murder, and did nothing to follow-up on leads created by Diop's cell phone records because they were inconsistent with Taveras' testimony.\n\nOctober 28, 1997, Glisson was convicted on two counts of murder in the Second Degree and sentenced to 25 years to life.\n\nMay 2012 Glisson's letters seeking help reached Investigator John O'Malley at the US Attorney's Office, SDNY, who recognized the Diop murder that Glisson was convicted for as one portrayed in a confession by Vega and Rodriguez.\n\nOn September 26, 2012, Judge Alvarado directed a hearing for Glisson and Watkins.  \n\nOn October 24, 2012 Glisson's conviction was conditionally vacated while reinvestigation of the case was ongoing (Bronx County District Attorney consenting to order from Judge Boyle).","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.424175/gov.uscourts.nysd.424175.2.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4522880/field-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Watkins, Cathy vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-03-05","disposition_date":"2016-04-25","payout_amount":8000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV00887","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","summary":"On January 19, 1995 around 3:50AM, the New Harlem Car Service got a call from a woman at 30 W 141st St for a call to the Bronx. The dispatcher told police that she believed the voice to be of a woman named Yvette, though the caller didn't identify herself. Diop, a cab driver, was dispatched to the call and found dead around 4:30AM from two gunshot wounds in the Bronx. On January 21, 1995 around 7:25PM, the plaintiff Cathy Watkins called New Harlem Cab Service for a pickup at 30 W 141st St, an apartment complex with over 1,000 units, to go to her cousin's home. The dispatcher thought her voice sounded like \"Yvette\" and notified Defendant Donnelly. Watkins took the cab to her cousin's home and, once her cousin was ready to leave with Watkins for a party, the two went to flag a cab but a New Harlem car drove up and told them to get in. Within minutes the car was stopped by police who took Watkins out of the cab, handcuffed and searched her, and put her in a police car.\n\nPlaintiff was taken to the 28th Precinct where Donnelly and Aiello questioned her. Plaintiff said she didn't call a cab on January 19. Rather, she was home with her boyfriend the entire night. Plaintiff agreed to go to the 43rd Precinct the next day, January 22. The next day, Plaintiff was seated in the precinct waiting area and saw a New Harlem driver and a woman (allegedly the dispatcher) come in. The driver told the woman that plaintiff was \"the girl.\" Plaintiff was then put in one room and the driver and dispatcher were put in another. Plaintiff was not told the defendants were conducting a voice identification test, but Donnelly had her make a phone call to the other room and ask for a cab. When plaintiff asked Donnelly what else she should say on the phone he began screaming and falsely accusing her of attempting to disguise her voice. The dispatcher told the police Plaintiff's voice sounded like that of \"Yvette.\" Defendants then fabricated identifications and false oral statements by two alleged eyewitnesses through coercion, threats, and manipulation and feeding the witnesses facts. Donnelly then created false notes purporting to memorialize these identifications, and used the falsified record to obtain a determination of \"probable cause\" to arrest plaintiff. Defendants continued to threaten and manipulate one of the witnesses and made her identify Watkins in a lineup at the precinct. They did the same with the other witness and showed her a photo of Watkins before the lineup where the witness was told to identify Watkins. \n\nPlaintiff was tried and convicted in September 1997. At trial, a witness Nicole Carter (the dispatcher who received the call to which Diop responded) testified that she believed the caller was a woman she knew as Yvette, though she hadn't received a call from Yvette since August 1994. Carter said she identified plaintiff's voice at the precinct on January 22, but Carter did not look anything like the woman who was at the precinct on January 22. In the spring of 2012, proof of plaintiff's innocence emerged when Diop's two murderers admitted to their involvement and provided information corroborating their story, including that one of their girlfriends who lived at 30 W 141st Street made the call to the car service. Plaintiff was freed in 2012 and had her conviction vacated and indictment dismissed in December 2012 after almost 18 years in jail.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.423295/gov.uscourts.nysd.423295.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5537462/watkins-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Donnelly, Michael C.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2010-10-22","disposition_date":"2014-11-21","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"10CV06277","name":"Vasquez, Israel vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":4900000,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4348044/vazquez-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"5BV6","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/5BV6"}