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“This is an 11-year-old botched investigation that is keeping my client behind bars,” Napoli Shkolnik’s Attorney Craig Phemister said, addressing the judge. “We’re dealing with a lead investigator who obviously had some serious issues. It would be unjust for my client to remain incarcerated.”
Napoli Shkolnik’s client, Wayne Martin, recently had his double murder conviction overturned after 11 years in prison. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic overturned the conviction after the District Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit reported that they are investigating whether or not trial prosecutor Marc Fliedner had withheld potentially exculpatory evidence. Jude D’Emic declined to set bail however he did note that he does not want to keep Mr. Martin lock up “any longer than necessary.”
“This is an 11-year-old botched investigation that is keeping my client behind bars,”
– Craig Phemister (Attorney for Wayne Martin)
Desde que asumió como fiscal de distrito en Brooklyn en 2014, Thompson ha pedido a los tribunales que revoquen las condenas y desestimen los cargos en 21 casos, incluido el de Martin esta semana. “Un fiscal involucrado en mala conducta intencional enfrenta una reprimenda inmediata, incluido el despido”, dijo Charisma Troiano, vocera de Thompson. Un comité de ética interno también los revisa, dijo.
El fiscal en el caso del Sr. Martin renunció en junio y no respondió a una solicitud para explicar por qué esos materiales no fueron entregados a la defensa.
“There’s a lot of other people out there who need help.”
– Wayne Martin
Después de que el Sr. Martin fuera condenado por el doble homicidio, el fiscal argumentó que si no recibía la sentencia más dura posible, habría más víctimas.
De hecho, hubo más, pero el Sr. Martin no tuvo nada que ver con ellos. Al menos otras dos personas fueron asesinadas por los hombres identificados como los pistoleros en la tienda de neumáticos.
Mr. Martin thanked all for their efforts on his behalf and added “There’s a lot of other people out there who need help.” For now he is looking forward to getting back to his life; he proudly took his daughter to school the other day and called the experience “indescribable.”
Mr. Martin was convicted of double murder in 2005 and was serving a life sentence without the possibility parole; however, allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in his case have led to this overturned conviction. Martin had been sentenced to life without parole for the fatal shooting of a tire shop owner and an employee in East Flatbush in 2005. The Brooklyn Conviction Review Unit uncovered alleged misconduct by now-retired trial prosecutor Marc Fliedner and Mr. Martin’s 2010 conviction was vacated on July 7th.
The allegations of misconduct and missing evidence were put in the spotlight when the Brooklyn District Attorney made the chief administrative judge aware that Wayne’s due process rights had been violated and that evidence that could of resulted in a different jury verdict was not made available to the defense team ahead of trial.