Mr. Louima's position, they say, is so strong -- a ''slam-bang case,'' one called it -- that he hardly needs a Johnnie Cochran to win a huge settlement or trial judgment from the city. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Knowledgeable and have experience building computers and maintaining them. While denying the rape, the defendants admit committing these other attacks. And then there are the ruffled feelings. ''There was a feeling that our lack of experience was such that we would not be able to handle the case to the conclusion,'' he said. Not only were the police prohibited from interviewing Reyes or giving him a polygraph, but Morgenthau ordered other inmates not to talk to any police investigators about their conversations with Reyes. Born: 24-Nov-1966 Birthplace: Thomassin, Haiti. Mr. Cochran said he received calls on the family's behalf from people ''in the Haitian community,'' including King Kino, the leader of Phantoms, the Haitian band that was playing at the nightclub Mr. Louima patronized before his encounter with the police. Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Victim. He won them millions of dollars, even as he worked as a lawyer to stars like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Mr. Louima's lawyers would not comment on how the fee would be divided. ''We reached out to him'' after asking people about ''who was best on police brutality,'' said Mr. Nicolas, a cousin of Mr. Louima. While any settlement or trial award is likely to be far less than that, it could still amount to many millions, and the typical legal fee in such a case is one-third of the city's payment. He said he had been encouraging witnesses to cooperate with Federal investigators as they consider Federal civil rights charges against the police officers. Instead, this case was solved with old-fashioned police work. Mr. Neufeld rejected that assessment. Big-city cops do a tough, dangerous job, and even their most ardent defenders will admit that sometimes, mistakes can happen and tragedy can occur. Father: Jean Louima Mother: Figena Brother: Jonas Wife: Micheline (m. 1994) Daughter: Abnia Samantha Son: Abner Jr. (by Micheline) Two of the defendants, Santana and Richardson, independently brought investigators to the precise location of the attack on the jogger, something only the perpetrators could have known. granted his request. And to research and press a suit involving such wide-ranging issues, Mr. Neufeld said, requires a team that, like this one, is larger than usually found in a personal injury suit. DNA identifications had only been invented a few years earlier and were not even permitted in New York courts until six months before the Central Park wilding. slimed the cops, then he ran interference for a rapist-murderer. The evidence against Richardson also included his vivid description of the attack — given on videotape, in the presence of his father — and a deep scratch wound on his cheek that he admitted was from the jogger. Abner Louima got $5.8 million for a shockingly brutal police assault on him, and he was just an innocent bystander. Mr. Scheck is part of the defense team for Louise Woodward, the British au pair recently convicted of killing a baby in Massachusetts. After the first 911 calls came in, the police arrested some of the thugs in the park that very night. Melody Jackson, whose brother was friends with defendant Kharey Wise, testified — reluctantly — that she talked to Wise by phone when he was at Rikers Island and that he told her that he didn’t rape the jogger, he “only held her legs down while Kevin (Richardson) f–ked her.” She originally volunteered this information to the police thinking it would be helpful to Wise. One member of the original Louima team suggested that Haitian immigrant leaders had pushed for Mr. Cochran because they feared that some of the original lawyers were not up to the job.

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