Abraham, Victor vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 22CV01162,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, March 22, 2022
Complaint
Description: 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 sugg...