June 26, 2024

Firm brings $37 million lawsuit in Queens wrongful conviction case


Our firm today filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit on behalf of Reginald Cameron, seeking a total of at least $37 million in compensatory and punitive damages against individual police detectives who caused Mr. Cameron to be falsely prosecuted in 1994–96 for a Queens homicide he didn’t commit. You can read the lawsuit here. Mr. Cameron’s conviction was vacated in August 2023, following a joint motion filed on his behalf by the Legal Aid Society and the Conviction Integrity Unit of the Queens District Attorney’s Office. This case, in which four persons including Mr. Cameron were coerced into giving false statements by police, was headed up by NYPD detective Carlos Gonzalez, who in years prior obtained false statements in the high-profile Central Park jogger and Brian Watkins “Utah Tourist” cases. Mr. Cameron was released from prison on parole in 2003, after having spent nine years wrongfully incarcerated. The Cameron lawsuit also seeks to hold the City of New York liable for its unlawful policies that brought about his wrongful conviction. Our firm has recovered more than $60 million over the last five years for seven clients who were wrongfully convicted in Queens.