Alan Newton has hit yet another roadblock in his fight to collect the $18 million a jury awarded him in 2010 for a wrongful rape conviction.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin threw out Newton’s jury verdict in 2011, but the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed her decision in 2015.
The city’s Law Department has continued to fight the payout – and Scheindlin has asked the Second Circuit to weigh in, writing in new court papers she needs “clarification on how to proceed.”
While Scheindlin junked the jury’s award, she did not address the city’s request for a new trial or a reduced verdict at that time which, she maintains, was “in error.”
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