she is white.
She is the person on the left in this pic. She has had bad history in Louisville
“Jury awards former U of L student $2.25 million for wrongful arrest by LMPD”
“LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) – A jury awarded $2.25 million Wednesday to a former University of Louisville student who was wrongfully arrested by a Louisville Metro police detective more than a decade ago.
The trial in the lawsuit filed by Tiffany Washington, who was working at the school’s library when she was arrested by former Det. Crystal Marlowe for robbery in 2007, wrapped up and was sent to the jury on Wednesday.
After an eight-day trial and about two hours of deliberation, the jury awarded Washington $2 million in compensatory damages and $250,000 in a punitive award.
“This has taken 11 years to get here and is vindication for Tiffany,” said attorney Ryan Vantrease, who represented Washington along with lawyers Patrick Markey, John Bahe and David Mushlin. “What happened to her is atrocious, and this restores our faith in the constitution.”
Attorney Carroll Pettit, one of the attorneys representing Marlowe on behalf of the city, declined to comment on the verdict and said it was “very premature” to say whether there will be an appeal.
Washington’s lawsuit was among more than a dozen filed against Marlowe in 2010, claiming she arrested them for crimes they could not have committed.
The lawsuits followed an investigation by The Courier-Journal, which reported in a series of articles in 2010 that Marlowe arrested more than a dozen people over a two-year period who could not have committed the crimes, either because they were already in jail at the time, or because of other evidence that supported their innocence.
Four other trials by other plaintiffs against Marlowe will be scheduled in upcoming months.
Bahe, one of Washington’s attorneys, told the jury in closing arguments Wednesday that charging an innocent person with a crime is “an American nightmare.” He described how Washington, then working at the UofL library, missed her finals while in jail on two felony charges and then had to wait a month before the case was dismissed.
In December 2007, Marlowe issued an arrest warrant for Washington after the detective said a robbery victim was able to “positively ID” her as one of three perpetrators.
But Washington had bank statements, pictures, telephone records and eyewitness testimony showing that she was in Henderson County, 130 miles away, on the night of the robbery.
Washington spent five days in jail before her $50,000 cash bond was reduced to an amount she was able to post. A grand jury chose not to indict her. Marlowe was fired in 2011 by former Chief Robert White for wrongfully arresting several people and is no longer in law enforcement.
Washington was depressed and suicidal, “enduring pure hell” while waiting to see if she would be indicted and face up to 20 years in prison, Bahe said. She is still on depression and anxiety medication.
“She has fought this case” for more than a decade and “today she finally gets her day in court,” he told the Jefferson Circuit Court jury.
Both Washington and Marlowe testified during the trial, which started early last week. Parts of Chief White’s deposition and past statements were shown to jurors in which he said Washington was “falsely” arrested, Marlowe showed an improper photo pack to the victim and didn’t investigate whether Washington had an alibi.
Since Washington had no criminal history, Marlowe used her driver’s license which stood out in opposition to mug shots of others in the pack...”
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this verdict was later reduced.
“Kentucky court overturns $2.25M officer misconduct verdict”
“LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky appeals court on Friday overturned a $2.25 million jury award to a former University of Louisville student in a wrongful arrest case.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that Tiffany Washington’s suit against disgraced former Louisville Metro Police Detective Crystal Marlowe and the city was filed after a one-year statute of limitations expired and should have been dismissed, The Courier-Journal reported. Washington’s case was one of several pending against Marlowe and the city that was dismissed on Friday for the same issue, while a few similar suits filed within the statute of limitations survive.
Washington was working in the university library when she was arrested in 2007 in a robbery. She didn’t file her malicious prosecution suit until February 2010, nearly two years after the charges against her were dropped. Washington’s attorneys argued that she did not know the scope of Marlowe’s misconduct until it was exposed by a 2010 Courier-Journal investigation.
The newspaper reported Marlowe arrested more than a dozen people over a two-year period who could not have committed the crimes they were accused of, either because they were in jail at the time or had other airtight alibis. Marlowe was fired in 2011.”
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Then these 4 came out against her. We will wait and see
bad cop
bttt