NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana denied New Orleans and its police chief’s motion to dismiss pattern-and-practice claims of failure to supervise and discipline police misconduct brought by a man who was wrongfully convicted and held in prison from 1986 until 2022. Police detectives from the era have testified they did not know the meaning of “exculpatory evidence” and the former defendant has properly argued the police superintendent knew the department was fabricating evidence.
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