| Tiffany Guerrero Was
Arrested In The Bronx 8 Years Ago Now Jury
Rejects Her Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 5 -- It was more than
eight years ago on January 18,
2012 that Tiffany Guerrero was
arrested near the Pelham
Parkway elevated train stop on
charges of robbery.
On February 25,
2020 she was in Manhattan
Federal court suing NYPD
Officer David Revans for the
arrest, with City lawyers
trying to keep information
sealed.
Inner City
Press was the only one in the
gallery of the courtroom of
Judge Vernon S. Broderick of
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York.
And now on
March 5, Inner City Press
alone reports that this trial
ended in a finding that
Guerrero did not prove her
case by a preponderance of the
evidence: a single X on the
verdict sheet. This after a
deliberation past 6 pm, a
police officer who came
without his memo book, and a
team of four representing the
City.
On March 3
to 6:30 pm with Inner City
Press the only media present,
the jury sent back questions
such as, who was responsible
for sending the case to the
District Attorney for
prosecution?
After much back and
forth, Judge Broderick sent
the jury back into their room
to clarify their question.
This resulted in a more
pro-defense formulation: did
the officer have any ability
to stop the referral to the
DA? Inner City Press will have
more on this.
Back on February
25 when the eight jurors - six
for real and two alternates -
went out, Judge Broderick
asked the four City lawyers if
they had listed the alleged
victim in their discovery
productions.
The City lawyers named her,
and Inner City Press heard the
name. Then they said they
would redacted the transcript
to take it out, and leave only
the initials (I.T.).
They also read
out the phone numbers of
witnesses. Sergeant
Richard Alvarado said
repeatedly he did not remember
anything about the incident
beyond what was in his memo
book, which he did not bring
to court.
This is a civil
rights case against the City
of New York in 2020. The case
is Guerrero v. The City of New
York, et al., 14-cv-8035
(Broderick).
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