Former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will be deposed in the civil rights case of a man who spent more than 22 years in prison before his murder and robbery convictions were vacated. Eastern District Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak (See Profile) permitted Cy Greene’s attorneys to question Hynes for two hours on matters such as the training and discipline of his prosecutors.
Greene was convicted in 1985. After Freedom of Information requests and post-conviction challenges, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Pesce (See Profile) granted Greene’s vacatur motion on faulty trial counsel grounds in 2006. Prosecutors dropped the case in 2007 and Greene sued in 2008 seeking unspecified compensatory damages and $22.5 million in punitive damages.
