He handled nearly a dozen homicide cases that resulted in 13 people being wrongfully convicted and spending a combined 245 years in prison.
The city and state have so far coughed up a total of $53.3 million in legal settlements to eight of those people over the shady investigations involving tainted evidence, misleading testimony or forced confessions — with more lawsuits pending.
But retired Detective Louis Scarcella, 66, will never lose a day of his freedom or pay a cent toward those settlements because the law is on his side.
Dirty Detective Louis Scarcella insists, 'I've done nothing wrong,' despite sending 13 wrongfully convicted people to jail
and people wonder why trusting the police is so difficult
The city and state have so far coughed up a total of $53.3 million in legal settlements to eight of those people over the shady investigations involving tainted evidence, misleading testimony or forced confessions — with more lawsuits pending.
But retired Detective Louis Scarcella, 66, will never lose a day of his freedom or pay a cent toward those settlements because the law is on his side.
Dirty Detective Louis Scarcella insists, 'I've done nothing wrong,' despite sending 13 wrongfully convicted people to jail
and people wonder why trusting the police is so difficult