The Brooklyn district attorney’s office has been ordered to produce any documents regarding allegations of wrongdoing by a former homicide detective whose old cases are under review.
The New York Times says a state judge will examine the paperwork regarding Louis Scarcella. It’ll be the first time anyone outside the DA’s office will have the chance to look at the files.
The district attorney’s office had tried to quash a subpoena request for the files, arguing it would be damaging to its investigation.
Prosecutors cast a critical eye at Scarcella’s work after a judge threw out the conviction of a man accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990. He had been credited with solving sensational cases.
The judge is expected to take several months to review the documents.
(AP)
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The fact that the murderer, David Ranta, was allowed to walk free, is a travisty! Scarcella got one kid to lie. Big deal! There were so many other witnesses who saw Ranta shoot Rabbi Wertzberger.
What about his intented target, Chaim Weinbeger? He clearly saw that murderer, Ranta, point a gun at him! After he miraculously escaped & Ranta didn’t see his getaway car, he panicked & ran up Clymer Street, murdered Rabbi Wertzberger who was sitting in his car, and took off. The fact that the “Community” took this sitting down without making a peep, is extremely troubling! Did Charles Hynes threaten them? Was it Coumo? Where were “unsera” leaders???