john The Wrongful Prosecution of John Giuca 1. The Murder On Saturday, October 11, 2003, college student Mark Fisher went out with some friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. At a bar, he ran into Angel DiPietro, a classmate from Fairfield University, who was out with some of her friends, including a girl named … Read more
In September of 2003, John Giuca was a college student, studying Criminal Justice at the prestigious John Jay University in New York City. But just two years later, his life would grind to a screeching halt when he was sentenced to 25-years to life for a crime he did not commit. Convinced … Read more
Despite Recanting Witness, Judge Rejects ‘Grid Kid Killer’ Appeal by Hella Winston Gothamist The witness that helped convict John Giuca for the murder of Mark Fisher in 2003 had a strong motive to cooperate and has since recanted, but that was not enough to sway a Brooklyn judge to order a new trial. Yesterday Justice Danny … Read more
Did The Brooklyn DA Frame An Innocent Man For A College Student’s Murder? by Hella Winston Gothamist It’s not every day that a 27-year veteran of the NYPD openly contradicts a prosecutor and admits under oath that he was “not sure if I believed anything” about a key conversation relayed by a jailhouse informant … Read more
The Giuca Case, and the Prosecutor’s Willful Blindness to the Truth Bennett L. Gershman, Contributor Professor of Law, Elizabeth Haub Law School, Pace University The Huffington Post It was a sensational New York murder trial – the Grid Kid Slaying – in which two young men, John Giuca and Antonio Russo, alleged members of a … Read more
Original ‘Grid Kid Slayer’ attorney admits he was in dark about witness’ mental illness, crucial lie by Christina Carrega NY Daily News The original trial attorney who represented the convicted “Grid Kid Slayer” conceded he was not aware that the prosecution’s key witness suffered from mental illness and admitted to fabricating stories to get … Read more
A murder, two moms and a mess by Harry Siegel NY Daily News It’s Thanksgiving, so here’s a story about mothers and sons. It starts in 2003, when 19-year-old college student Mark Fisher made his first solo trip to NYC. He met a fellow student, Angel DiPietro, at an Upper East Side bar and … Read more
Lead prosecutor in ‘Grid Kid’ murder case didn’t disclose she appeared in court on behalf of troubled witness by Christina Carrega NY Daily News The lead prosecutor who presented testimony from a diagnosed bi-polar schizophrenic to convict the “Grid Kid Slayer” did not disclose that she appeared in court on behalf of the troubled … Read more
Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson Passes On a Chance to Right a Potential Wrongful Conviction Key evidence was withheld and changed from defendant in high-profile murder case by Hella Winston Observer Convicted: John Giuca (Photo: Youtube) Back in January, after his Conviction Review Unit (CRU) had completed a yearlong re-examination of the state’s case against … Read more
Did an Ambitious Prosecutor Convict the Wrong Man for the Killing of Mark Fisher? by Hella Winston Observer In 2010, New York magazine published a highly sympathetic profile of Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, who was at the time prosecuting a case involving the murder of a 47-year-old, male freelance radio journalist by a 16-year-old boy … Read more