De Blasio Announces Pick for New York City’s Top Lawyer
Source: New York Times
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio on Sunday selected a former United States attorney for Brooklyn, Zachary W. Carter, to serve as New York City’s chief lawyer.
As the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York in the late 1990s, Mr. Carter oversaw the prosecution of police officers in connection with the brutal assault of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant — a case that would haunt the Police Department for years.
At a news conference in Lower Manhattan announcing the appointment of the city’s new corporation counsel, Mr. de Blasio said Mr. Carter would be the point man on two of the biggest legal issues facing the incoming administration: the stop-and-frisk litigation and the Central Park Five case.
The mayor-elect said that once in office, he will drop the city’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling in the stop-and-frisk lawsuit and will settle claims by the men who were wrongfully imprisoned in connection with the rape of a Central Park jogger.
It will be up to Mr. Carter to provide the “legal architecture” to carry out those plans, Mr. de Blasio said...
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