Two men have filed a civil rights lawsuit against an Oakland homicide detective and the City after they were exonerated of murder.
Cartier Hunter and Giovante Douglas were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2016 for the murder of a man after a traffic altercation in Oakland.
Years later, the chief witness in the case admitted that she was paid as much as $30,000 to lie on the witness stand at the urging of Oakland Police Homicide Det. Phong Tran. "Two men who were robbed of close to a decade of their life, in the prime of their life, due to the unlawful illegal despicable and criminal conduct of an Oakland police officer," said their lawyer Adante Pointer.RelatedThe two men accused of killing toddler Jasper Wu in a shootout on a Bay Area freeway no longer face the possibility of life without parole or a death sentence after prosecutors reduced the charges against them.
But emotions were clear on the face of Giovante Douglas as his lawyer described the decade-long ordeal suffered by the two men and their families. "As you can see from Mr. Douglas, this is not just a lawsuit written on a piece of paper. This is his life. This is the proof, the evidence, the carnage, that Officer Tran caused these young men, to have to suffer, through the torture, of being criminally prosecuted, convicted, label a murderer, all supported by lies," said Pointer.
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