| Man Released
After Imprisonment for Robbery on Avenue D
Sues City, Lax Database Dug Into
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 17 – Juwaun Fraser was
arrested on Avenue D on
Manhattan's Lower East Side on
October 14, 2014 and charged
with robbing an undercover
drug purchaser in a "Buy and
Bust" operation.
He was
subsequently exonerated after
serving two years, and then
sued for fabrication of
evidence.
On March
16 and March 17, 2023 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Colleen McMahon was
presiding over the trial.
Inner City Press went and
covered
it.
After evidence
about Fraser lost wages - at
the time of arrest he was a
paid union apprentice for the
Sheet Metal Workers Local 28 -
there was cross examination of
a supervisor of the New York
Police Department's database
of civil lawsuits against
police officer.
It emerged
that at the relevant time, it
was left to police officers
set to testify to ask for a
list of the lawsuits against
them.
The allegations
in the trial are that the law
enforcement witnesses lied and
were misleading.
The case is
Fraser v. City of New York, et
al., 20-cv-4926 (McMahon)
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