Wronged Brooklyn defendant suit for malicious prosecution set for trial
New D.A. ‘Not Enough’ to Remove Concerns from Acts of Past Administration
In a complex federal civil suit brought by a wrongly convicted Brooklyn defendant against New York City, three NYPD detectives and a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney, allegations of systematic misconduct by a former Brooklyn district attorney’s administration will be front and center in the pending jury trial.
Brooklyn federal magistrate Judge Jack Weinstein has ordered the case Bailey v. City of New York — which, as the judge describes, contains “charges of serious misconduct by the district attorney of Kings County and three detectives” — be tried by a jury.
Clarence Bailey was convicted for attempted murder in 2007, but the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed the 20-year sentence in 2009.