Idrissa Reaves, who was convicted in 2019 of criminal facilitation, despite a jury finding him not guilty of murder, which was the primary reason for the case, is getting a second trial.
A state appeals judge spotted the jig and granted a Brooklyn man a new trial over some dodgy testimony from a so-called expert.
Idrissa Reaves, who was convicted in 2019 of criminal facilitation, despite a jury finding him not guilty of murder, which was the primary reason for the case, is getting a second trial.
On Wednesday, September 24, the state Appellate Division Second Department reversed Reaves’ conviction, concluding that then-state Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice shouldn’t have let the prosecution use a detective inspector as an “unqualified” expert witness to give his analysis of a rap song they claim Reaves co-wrote about the killing.
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