A man who spent 24 years in prison before being retried and acquitted in a 1989 New York City killing is suing police, saying detectives mishandled the investigation.
Derrick Deacon is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the city. The city Law Department had no immediate comment.
Deacon was convicted in the 1989 shooting death of a teenager during a robbery in a Flatbush apartment complex. He was granted a new trial in 2012 after one witness recanted and an FBI cooperator identified a different man as the shooter.
It took a jury nine minutes to acquit Deacon in 2013.
His lawyer, Earl Ward, says the case reflects “gross misconduct” by detectives.
Deacon also has an ongoing $25 million lawsuit against the state.
(AP)
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I feel badly for this person but why am i paying with my tax money? The people who did this to him should be paying if culpable. That’s a deterrent.
If the accused was exonerated after the witness recanted his testimony, one must ask why did the witness originally testify falsely. It would seem there is a prima facie case of suborning perjury against the police and probably the prosecutor. The fact that the judge accepted this false testimony would indicate probable cause for an investigation into whether the judge colluded with suborning of perjury.
Because you are the people and the people hired theSe bums. So it’s the people’s fault. The sheeple