The defense counsel for Darryl Littlejohn, who is serving a life sentence for brutally murdering a John Jay graduate student, has sued New York City for defamation for reporting her to a grievance committee and making the ethics probe public (See Complaint).

Joyce David, a former president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association, claimed on Tuesday that the city and two of its criminal-justice officials had libeled her when they reported to the grievance committee for Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island that she had made “material misrepresentations to the Court” in handling Mr. Littlejohn’s case.

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