""Time and again, innocent men were convicted of serious offenses, including rape and murder, and imprisoned for decades based on unreliable and fabricated identification evidence," the lawsuit said."
""Mr. Jones's wrongful conviction was no accident-he was framed by detectives and officers from the Boston Police Department," the lawsuit said, "who acted pursuant to the BPD's policies, patterns, practices, and customs in effect at the time. Indeed, the individual defendants here were serial civil-rights violators and have caused numerous wrongful convictions.""
""widespread practice""
A Roxbury man served 15 years in prison and more than 30 years under restrictive parole after a 1975 murder conviction that lacked forensic evidence and included eyewitness reports of a much shorter shooter. A federal civil-rights lawsuit alleges Boston Police detectives forced false witness identifications and routinely buried evidence ahead of trials. The complaint names the City of Boston and three former detectives and describes a widespread practice that produced unreliable and fabricated identification evidence. The plaintiff now works in reentry services and had his conviction vacated in 2022, seeking redress for the wrongful conviction.
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