After 18 years in hell, Sundhe Moses finally freed when Brooklyn detective's case comes undone
Moses has spent the better part of two decades in prison after being convicted of killing a 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn. But the case centered around a questionable confession taken by NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella, the man behind 50 convictions currently being examined as potentially wrongful.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 2:30 AM
New York Daily News
Moses has spent the better part of two decades in prison after being convicted of killing a 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
Sundhe Moses was a free man for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday, as he walked out of an upstate prison determined to prove that a dirty detective railroaded him for the killing of a 4-year-old girl in Brooklyn.
Nearly 2 feet of snow covered the ground outside of the Bare Hill Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, but Moses had a sunny disposition as he left the lockup at 9:45 a.m.
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He was sent up the river as a 19-year-old. On Saturday, he’ll celebrate his 38th birthday.
“It was snowing, but it was like a great weight being lifted off my shoulders,” Moses told the Daily News. “I walked out and everything was new.”
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Moses was released pursuant to the state Parole Board’s decision on Oct. 31 to grant him parole. It came after his lawyers documented serious flaws in the Brooklyn district attorney’s case and a key witness at trial admitted that cops coached him to lie.
Moses, who was convicted for the stray-bullet killing of Shamone Johnson at a playground in Brownsville in August 1995, says that tainted retired NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella beat him into confessing. Moses’ case is one of 50 trial convictions on which Scarcella worked that prosecutors have reopened after it was revealed the ex-lawman may have framed an innocent man in the murder of a Brooklyn rabbi in 1991.
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“Scarcella is a real dirty cop,” Moses said, ruing the day he copped to the shooting. “He beat me until I signed that confession . . . I am angry. My life is gone.”
His closely cropped hair now flecked with gray, Moses was met outside the prison on Tuesday by Leah Busby, the young lawyer who uncovered exculpatory evidence that sprung him.
Nearly 2 feet of snow covered the ground outside of the Bare Hill Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, but Moses had a sunny disposition as he left the lockup at 9:45 a.m.
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Sundhe Moses gets emotional embrace from mom, Elaine, Tuesday at her Brooklyn home — after 18 years being locked away.
He was sent up the river as a 19-year-old. On Saturday, he’ll celebrate his 38th birthday.
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Charles Moses hugs his son, Sundhe, as they are reunited at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. 'My family kept me going,' the younger Moses said of his ordeal.
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Shamone Johnson was struck by a stray bullet at a playground in Brownsville in 1995. Sundhe Moses is said to have confessed to the crime.
Moses, who was convicted for the stray-bullet killing of Shamone Johnson at a playground in Brownsville in August 1995, says that tainted retired NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella beat him into confessing. Moses’ case is one of 50 trial convictions on which Scarcella worked that prosecutors have reopened after it was revealed the ex-lawman may have framed an innocent man in the murder of a Brooklyn rabbi in 1991.
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Former NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella has been accused of using tough tactics to force Sundhe Moses to sign a confession. Fifty cases he got convictions on are being reexamined.
“Scarcella is a real dirty cop,” Moses said, ruing the day he copped to the shooting. “He beat me until I signed that confession . . . I am angry. My life is gone.”
Pearl Gabel/New York Daily News
Friends and family, including mother Elaine (2nd left) and father Charles (right), crowd around Moses as they celebrate his release from prison.
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