$19 million settlement because of police misconduct.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-...-1.3243855
One does wonder how many people are rotting in jail because cops fudge the evidence to keep up their "conviction rate."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-...-1.3243855
Quote:City must pay $19M to end suits by wrongly convicted pair over 1993 Brooklyn kidnapping
Quote: Police found a dead, partially dressed 16-year-old girl in an industrial area of East New York early on New Year's Day in 1992. She was stabbed, strangled and beaten. Although a rape kit was destroyed within weeks, DNA analysis of hairs on the girl's body in 2009 excluded Wagstaffe and Connor.
Police arrested Wagstaffe and Connor on the word of a now-dead woman who was drunk and high when she said she saw the girl getting forced into a car.
One does wonder how many people are rotting in jail because cops fudge the evidence to keep up their "conviction rate."