Alton Maddox: Police Courts in New York
Twenty years after Brawley fingered a “white cop, ”the Brawley file is still intact in the state’s vault. I had to defend myself in Dutchess County Supreme Court with virtually no discovery and with my hands tied behind my back while I was also beating back a Fifth Column....Gov. David Paterson has buried his head in the sand while he knows—or should know—that the hidden Brawley file will prove not only my innocence but also that I was framed and railroaded. It will also prove that Tawana Brawley was the victim of state-sponsored defamation.