{"active":false,"first_name":"Jennifer","last_name":"Hamilton","race":"White","gender":"Female","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"DB CRD","assignment_date":"2016-12-07","id":"319"},"shield_no":2299,"ended_date":"2025-07-01","taxid":"938820","shield_no_history":[12096],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","lawsuits":[{"name":"Abraham, Victor vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-03-22","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"22CV01162","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"On October 17, 2016, Plaintiff was arrested on suspicion of robbing S.H. in Staten Island. S.H. had identified the perpetrator as a Black male, and he supplied the police with a photograph he had taken on the S44 bus of a man he believed to be the perpetrator. Plaintiff did not take the bus on that date and therefore could not have been the one that S.H. photographed. Defendant Detective Lutz received & reviewed the photograph but didn't add it to the case file, and the DA's office was not informed about the photograph until the eve of Plaintiff's criminal trial two years later. On October 18, Det. Lutz created a photo array featuring photographs of Plaintiff and five \"fillers\"; this photo array was unduly suggestive, as Plaintiff was the only one wearing a white shirt. Upon viewing this array, S.H. identified Plaintiff as one of the men who robbed him. Plaintiff was processed and held at Rikers Island until his family posted bail on October 27. \n\nOn October 27, 2016, another individual, A.L., was robbed in Staten Island. A.L., who \"saw only one of the attackers and only for a couple of seconds\", told Defendant Sgt. Zielinski that the robbery was perpetrated by a tall Black male. Zielinski showed him a picture of Plaintiff and no others, and A.L. told him that he was unsure if the person in the photograph was one of his attackers. On October 29, Defendant PO Hamilton displayed photographs of potential suspects to A.L. one at a time. Plaintiff's photo was the only one to appear twice. After this viewing, A.L. identified Plaintiff as one of his assailants, and Plaintiff was rearrested on October 31. The defendants testified at a November 1 grand jury but did not inform the jury about the S44 bus photo, the flawed lineup procedure, A.L.'s inability to identify Plaintiff from a photo on Oct. 27, or the flawed photo display procedure on Oct. 29. Plaintiff was indicted by this jury for the two robberies. \n\nOn November 20, 2017, RCSC ruled that the Oct. 16 photo array was unduly suggestive and that it tainted the Oct. 18 lineup identification, suppressing both identifications made by S.H. Though he testified at the hearing, Det. Lutz withheld the existence of the S44 bus photograph. The Court also suppressed Zielinski's use of a photograph to elicit A.L.'s identification of Plaintiff and Hamilton's photo display. During November 2018, Plaintiff's jury trial was held, during which S.H. testified as to the existence of the S44 bus photo and to the fact that the individual in the photograph was not Plaintiff. Plaintiff was acquitted of both robberies on November 7, 2018. While Plaintiff was incarcerated, he lost his Section 8 housing and was still homeless as of June 2022.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.475205/gov.uscourts.nyed.475205.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63131998/abraham-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"W79","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/W79"}