NEWTON v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Docket No. 11-2610-cv.

779 F.3d 140 (2015)

Alan NEWTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 26, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Francis Schutty, III , Law Office of John F. Schutty, P.C., New York, NY; David T. Goldberg , Donahue & Goldberg, LLP, New York, NY; Eric J. Hecker , Cuti Hecker Wang LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Drake A. Colley , Edward F.X. Hart , Arthur G. Larkin , for Michael A. Cardozo , Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

James W. Quinn , Karin S. Portlock , Devin M. Cain , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Keith A. Findley , Innocence Network, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, for amicus curiae The Innocence Network.

Andrew H. Schapiro , Molly A. Karlin , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY, for amici curiae Evidence-Management Professionals Bruce Adams, Kolene Dean, Ron K. Peterson, John San Agustin, John Vasquez.

Before: LYNCH, LOHIER, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


Nearly thirty years ago, Alan Newton was wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. He served over twenty years in prison. Had he been given access to exonerating DNA evidence that the City of New York long misplaced and mishandled, Newton very likely would have been a free man years earlier. Newton and his attorneys procured...

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