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Exonerated Prisoner Sues New York City for 16 Years of Wrongful Incarceration

Loaded on July 1, 2024 published in Prison Legal News July, 2024, page 19
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: New York.

Former New York prisoner Ricardo Jimenez, 55, filed suit in federal court for the Southern District of New York on August 2, 2023, accusing New York City and three former officers with its Police Department (NYPD), as well as the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office (DAO), of violating his civil ...

 

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