In the 1980s and 1990s, Louis Scarcella was a leading detective in Brooklyn. In 2013, after one of his most celebrated cases was overturned, inquiries began in more than 70 murders that Mr. Scarcella had helped to investigate.CreditCredit
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When Mr. Cruz’s lawyer, Justin Bonus, asked him, “Do you stand by all of the investigations you’ve conducted?” Mr. Scarcella replied, “110 percent.”
Derrick Hamilton, 53, was one of the exonerated men listening to Mr. Scarcella testify. He spent nearly 21 years in prison for a 1991 murder investigated by Mr. Scarcella, before his conviction was overturned in 2015. It was the fourth time he had watched Mr. Scarcella testify at a wrongful conviction hearing.
“His story is the same: He doesn’t have anything to do with the case. He wasn’t involved. It was somebody else’s case,” Mr. Hamilton said. “But he did all the work.” ...
In some of those cases, judges noted in their decisions that the former detective had not been truthful in his testimony. Yet he has never been charged with breaking the law or official misconduct.
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