BROOKLYN – Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis has recused himself from William Lopez’s $124 million lawsuit against New York City for his wrongful conviction in a 1988 Brooklyn murder.
Lopez ended up serving 22 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted of killing Elvirn Surria in a crack house in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn in in 1988.
The case will instead be heard by Judge Dora Irizarry. Garaufis freed the wrongfully convicted man from prison. He came down hard on the Brooklyn district attorney’s office for the 1988 prosecution of William Lopez, and told the Daily News the case “rotten from day one…The prosecutor’s evidence was flimsy to begin with and has since been reduced to rubble by facts arising after the trial,” Garaufis said when he ordered Lopez to be released in 2013.
When Lopez filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court on June 13, it was assigned to “Garaufis by a computer system that distributes cases randomly, said Eugene Corcoran, a spokesman for the Eastern
District of New York. Judges do not reveal their reason for recusal, but Garaufis’ strongly stated views clearly might have been a problem for the defendants — two detectives, two Brooklyn prosecutors and the city,” according to The News.
ATHENS - It’s been 83 years since Greece declared war on Albania, the occupying Italian army there using sites to fire shells at Greek soldiers who pushed them out - at a cost of 8,000 of them killed - and now new battles have erupted, politically.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
ATHENS — After several years of strained relations that raised tensions to alarming levels, longtime regional rivals Greece and Turkey made a significant step Thursday in mending ties during a visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
NEW YORK - For nearly a decade, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) has helped the New York City Police Foundation (NYCPF) support the people on the front lines of making New York City a safe place for all to live, work, and visit.
NEW YORK – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C – Staten Island/Brooklyn) released the following statement on December 7: “After leading a bipartisan effort last month to denounce the cancellation of a 250-person school safety agent class, I’m happy that the Mayor’s Office has now changed course and is hiring additional school safety agents.
ATHENS – A press conference was held on December 5 for the Acropolis Museum’s new exhibition titled ‘Meanings’ (‘NoHMATA’): Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to Today.
LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died.
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