Black Man Coming Home after 20 yrs: White NYPD Overseer (officer) may have Beat Confession Out of him & Framed him for Murder

From [HERE] A Black man convicted of shooting and killing a 4-year-old girl nearly 20 years ago in Brooklyn was granted parole this week after doubts were raised about the tactics used by the detective who interrogated him. That detective, Louis Scarcella, is the focus of a continuing investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, which reopened 50 of his trial convictions after it was revealed that he might have helped frame an innocent man and used the same witness over and over again.

The New York State Board of Parole decided to release Sundhe Moses, 37, after his lawyers documented flaws in his prosecution in the child’s killing — a sharp departure for the board, which historically required inmates to admit guilt and express remorse to be set free.

The decision was the first time since the district attorney’s review of the 50 cases commenced in May that a defendant investigated by Mr. Scarcella, who is retired, had been ordered released.

“I’m forgiving, but I’m also angry,” Mr. Moses said on Friday by phone from Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone, near the Canadian border. “I lost a lot of time in prison.”

Mr. Moses was convicted of the August 1995 killing of Shamone Johnson, who died when a group of armed men seeking revenge for the death of a friend known as “Killer Ben” opened fire on a playground in a Brownsville public housing complex.

When he testified at his 1997 murder trial, Mr. Moses said one detective wrote the confession while Mr. Scarcella used physical abuse to get him to sign it.

“I sent in a notarized affidavit with an apology to this man for lying on him and for helping a dirty cop taking this man’s life from him,” Mr. Ivory, who is in prison in connection with an unrelated homicide, wrote to the parole board. His recantation was especially valuable because the victim was his cousin.

Ms. Busby also sent the board an affidavit declaring Mr. Moses’ innocence that was signed by one of the men who had participated in the crime but had been acquitted. Because of the acquittal, that defendant cannot be retried.