Rogue Brooklyn Prosecutor Could Soon Face a Day of Reckoning by THEODORE HAMM THE INDYPENDENT Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi never lost a homicide case. But evidence is mounting that the star prosecutor won some of her cases by concealing evidence and other unethical practices. Throughout the pandemic, advocates have expressed continued frustration regarding Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s unwillingness … Read more
Attorney for John Giuca Says Court of Appeals Was Misled Before Denying New Murder Trial by Dan M. Clark New York Law Journal (Online) An attorney for John Giuca, a Brooklyn man who has claimed for more than a decade that he was falsely accused of murdering a New Jersey college student, said in a … Read more
NY Court of Appeals Set to Eye Alleged Withholding of Evidence in Murder Trial of John Giuca by Dan M. Clark New York Law Journal (Online) The state’s highest court will hear arguments next week on whether John Giuca, a Brooklyn man convicted more than a decade ago of murdering a New Jersey college … Read more
Prosecutorial Misconduct “A prosecutor may ‘strike hard blows, but he is not at liberty to strike foul ones. It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.” –Berger v. United States “It is my … Read more
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