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<div id="p-16" class="related-carousel with-fb news half"><span style="color:#7f6000;font-size:large;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><b>E</b></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-size:1.4em;"><b>ric Glisson and four others spent 18 years in prison for the 1995 murder of livery driver Baithe Diop</b></span> <span style="font-size:1.4em;"><b><br />
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Lt. William &#8220;Sean&#8221; O&#8217;Toole. Lied in court, destroyed case note.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size:small;">An NYPD officer committed perjury to convict an innocent man and sabotaged the re-investigation that led to the real killers, court papers say. </span><span style="font-size:small;">Eric Glisson and four other people spent 18 years in prison for the 1995 fatal shooting of livery driver Baithe Diop. </span><br />
<span style="font-size:small;">Glisson, who was 20 when he was convicted, was released in 2013 along with Cathy Watkins, Michael Cosme, Devon Ayers and Carlos Perez when two gang members were found to be the actual killers.</span><br />
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Now, Glisson and the others say Lieutenant William O&#8217;Toole lied in court about how he caught Glisson and got in the way of a detective trying to find the real murderers, the <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://nypost.com/2016/03/21/cop-allegedly-lied-in-court-to-help-convict-innocent-man-of-murder/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">New York Post</a> reported.</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;">O&#8217;Toole said at the time that he had seen Glisson in the building where he lived and grabbed him just before Glisson dashed into his apartment. </span></p>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">But Glisson, who was imprisoned at New York&#8217;s maximum security facility Sing Sing, said O&#8217;Toole actually tricked him into opening the apartment&#8217;s door by using a neighborhood child.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Glisson, Watkins, Cosme, Ayers and Perez have sued the city for malicious prosecution.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">As part of the proceedings, they also claim there&#8217;s &#8216;ample evidence to infer&#8217; that O&#8217;Toole destroyed the notebook of a detective who was re-investigating the case.</span><a href="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js">//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js</a><br />
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<span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Photo: </span></i></span><span style="font-size:1.2em;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Perez</i></span><span class="credit"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Robert Kalfus </i></span></span> </span><span style="font-size:small;"><b>Wrongfully convicted: (From left) Devon Ayers, Michael Cosme, Cathy Watkins and Carlos. Convictions based on &#8216;cooked&#8217; police evidence. Now free and planning to file a law suit.</b></span></p>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The city has admitted that the notebook disappeared, the New York Post wrote. That detective&#8217;s new probe into the case eventually led to Glisson&#8217;s and the others&#8217; being set free.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;I&#8217;ve been innocent, I&#8217;ve been fighting all these years and the hard work finally paid off,&#8217; Cosme told <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Three-Men-Freed-Prison-Wrong-Convictions-1995-Murders-Livery-Cab-Driver-FedEx-Executive-188149401.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NBC </a>after his release in January 2013. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Another detective who worked under O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s supervision in the Bronx said he gave O&#8217;Toole a tip that could have spared Glisson and the others more than a decade behind bars.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Peter Forcelli told O&#8217;Toole that Gilbert Vega and José Rodriguez, two members of the Sex Money Murder gang who later turned out to be the real killers, were bragging about killing a lively driver in 1995, the court papers say.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Forcelli said O&#8217;Toole stayed silent and didn&#8217;t bring up Diop&#8217;s murder event though he had testified at Watkins and Glisson&#8217;s trial just months earlier</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The NYPD &#8216;may have looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there was anything other than an unsolved homicide that fit that decision&#8217;, Forcelli told NBC&#8217;s <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/dateline/a-bronx-tale-part-1-275267140001" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dateline </a>in an episode chronicling Glisson&#8217;s quest to be freed. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The conversation happened in late 1997 or early 1998, the New York Post reported. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">O&#8217;Toole told the newspaper the allegations were untrue, adding he &#8216;absolutely hadn&#8217;t lied under oath&#8217; and that Forcelli&#8217;s claims were &#8216;baloney&#8217;. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;There&#8217;s no reason for me to hide the notebook or take the notebook,&#8217; O&#8217;Toole told the New York Post.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;Obviously, anyone can put anything they want in court documents. I have nothing to hide and I know I didn&#8217;t do anything wrong.&#8217;</span><br />
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Glisson opened a juice bar in the Bronx, called Fresh Take Juice Bar, a year after his exoneration. His daughter Cynthia was just a week old when he was incarcerated and almost 18 years old when Glisson was released. He had a second daughter, named Scarlett, in April last year, <a class="" style="font-weight:bold;" href="https://twitter.com/datelinenbc/status/583271057743822848" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NBC </a>reported.</span></div>
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