Named in 4 known lawsuits, $9,292,000 total settlements.
Babb, Austin vs State of New York
Case # 21CV08655,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, December 2, 2021, ended October 25, 2022
$3,950,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On August 7, 2010 someone fired gunshots in an apartment. There was a party going on at the time in that apartment. Plaintiff was not at this party. A witness saw someone running down the hallway and then jumping on a bike outside waving a gun. Defendant Steven Smith was assigned as the lead detective in the investigation of the shooting. On multiple occasions defendant did not disclose relevant information that would have proved the plaintiff was not the perpetrator of the shooting. Plaintiff was arrested and charged for the shooting and remained incacerated for 9 and a half years for a crime he did not commit.
Forbes, Gregory vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 301007/2017,
Supreme Court - Bronx, May 10, 2017
Johnson, Latisha vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV01812,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, July 30, 2015, ended January 27, 2017
$2,671,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 11, 2005, plaintiff was cited by a transit officer for playing music too loudly. When the officer ran plaintiff's ID, he saw that she was wanted for questioning, and put her in handcuffs. At the precinct, officers denied plaintiff's request to speak to her mother, interrogated plaintiff for 24 hours, denied her food, screamed, pressured her, called her derogatory names, and coerced her into confessing to a crime she did not commit. Detectives investigated indifferently and carelessly, overlooking several signs that plaintiff did not commit the crime.
Blyden, Malisha vs City of New York & Nycpd
Case # 15CV08454,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, June 22, 2015, ended January 27, 2017
$2,671,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: This complaint entails a suit for wrongful conviction. The Plaintiff was exonerated by the Court after seven (7) years of incarceration following a confession by the true perpetrators. The following summarizes the crime briefly and the investigation that followed.
On September 6, 2005, two female sex workers, Jackie and Lace, and five men robbed and shot a man in his apartment. The Plaintiff had no connection to these crimes and no relation to the victim or the true perpetrators. The evening before the robbery, the victim had been a client of Jackie and Lace. While at his apartment they used his cellphone.
Two witnesses interviewed by Defendant NYPD Detectives Alamo and Polite reported that a short, thin wo...