Queens DA Sued For Doing Crappy Job
If you thought your $250 parking ticket was bad, hows this for an expensive mistake? William Brunson, who served two years in prison after being falsely convicted, is [suing the Queens District Attorney](1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/nyregion/26suit.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin)s office for $50 million for a pattern of irresponsible prosecution. During his trial, the prosecution conveniently forgot about a videotape that exonerated Brunson, allowing the store-owner to make a false ID. In his lawsuit, Brunson cites 84 separate cases in which Queens prosecutions were overturned by higher courts for prosecutorial misconduct. Wow. The last time I made 84 mistakes, my editor fired me, gave me a copy of Grammar for Dummies and told me not to come back until I had re-read the text four times.
This lawsuit mirrors [last years claim](2. http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=53fbb963e3db8197b089d252cd5a5895) filed by Shih Wei-Su, who wrongly served 12 years in prison for an attempted murder charge at a Bayside Pool Hall in Queens. In that case, a key witness had been charged with grand larceny in another case and was offered probation in exchange for his testimony against Wei-Su, and then prosecutors lied about the witnesss plea bargain. If only the Knicks could make deals like that