{"active":false,"first_name":"Patrick","last_name":"Boyle","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"060 DET","id":"60det"},"shield_no":1226,"taxid":"879365","complaint_ids":[200102143,9801031,8600229,8406413],"appt_date":"1983-01-03","lawsuits":[{"name":"Lopez, Alice Adm of Lopez, William vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-06-27","disposition_date":"2017-11-03","payout_amount":8250000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV03743","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Bolye, Patrick","summary":"On August 31, 1989, two men entered the apartment of Mr. Elvin Zorilla, a crack dealer operating out of 3053 Brighton Fifth Street, Brooklyn, and shot and killed Mr. Zorilla. Ms. Daisy Flores was present at the scene. P.O.s William Tobin and James Potts arrived soon after. Ms. Flores told them that the perpetrators were two black men; the one with the shotgun was described as 6'3''. \n\nThree supposed witnesses - Ms. Flores, Ms. Annie Burnell (a crack addict), and Mr. Edgardo Rodriguez – were subjected to essentially the same treatment on separate occasions.  On each occasion, officers arrested the witness, began to threaten them with jail time (and, in Ms. Flores' case, eventually, deportation) if she did not positively identify Plaintiff William Lopez as the killer. In all three cases it caused a change in the witnesses' testimony. \n\nThe officers failed to follow-up on a variety of alternative lines of evidence, including, for example, Mr. Lopez's two alibi witnesses, or testimony that the owner of the building in which the crime was committed, Mr. Howard Sachs, was present at the time. They never interviewed Mr. Sachs. \n\nOn September 29, 1989, a group of prostitutes were arrested, and all except for Janet Chapman were processed, booked and released. Ms. Chapman was a crack addict and a prostitute who frequented the area. Officers Boyle and Krudis threatened her with incarceration and the denial of crack cocaine if she did not identify Mr. Lopez as the killer; she identified Mr. Lopez as the killer. Days later, the officers prepared a wanted card for Ms. Chapman and ensured that she was incarcerated until after the trial to assure her testimony. \n\nAs a result of this false and coerced testimony, on October 20, 1989, Mr. Lopez was arrested and charged. \n\nWhile Ms. Chapman was in prison, she confided to a fellow prisoner, Ms. Earline Cafield, about her false testimony. Mr. Cafield wrote the DA's office on October 12, 1990, to relay this information; the Brooklyn DA's office only made this information available to defense counsel after Mr. Lopez's trial (along with other Brady material).\n\nFollowing various state court appeals, Mr. Lopez succeeded on a habeas appeal to the EDNY, heard by Judge Garaufis, who, on March 20, 2013, dismissed the pending indictment, barred New York from retrying him, expunged his conviction, and released Mr. Lopez from any form of State custody based upon his actual innocence and the various violations relayed above.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.357589/gov.uscourts.nyed.357589.5.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5690391/lopez-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"K8SC","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/K8SC"}