A man whose computers were seized as evidence by the New York City Police Department but destroyed before he could retrieve them waited too long to seek damages, an appellate court has ruled.

In 2008, Zbigniew Wikiert was arrested after firefighters put out a blaze at his Queens residence, and investigators found guns and marijuana. Three of Wikiert’s computers were seized.

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