New York, NY–A U.S. District Court jury in White Plains, New York entered deliberations around 10:30 a.m., Wednesday morning reported the Lower Hudson Valley News. The 12-person jury heard the case, brought against a Yonkers police officer by prosecuting attorneys after a grand jury indictment, related to an incident involving a female patron in a New York City restaurant two years ago.
According to District Court documents, 39 year-old Officer Simoes, a nine-year veteran with the Yonkers police department, is accused of body slamming 44 year-old, Irma Marquez, onto the floor of La Fonda Restaurant on March 3, 2007. Prosecuting attorneys played a surveillance video from the Palisade Avenue restaurant for the jury outlining the alleged beating, which they claim broke Marquez’s jaw and caused her to suffer a concussion.
Criminal defense attorneys representing the New York police officer, accused of beating the woman, assert the officer slipped on a wet floor and dropped Marquez. Personal injury lawyers representing Marquez filed an $11 million lawsuit against Simoes and the city in federal court a few weeks after a Yonkers City Court jury cleared her of criminal charges. Marquez was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental procedure and found innocent on both misdemeanor counts.
News by New York personal injury attorney Jonathan C. Reiter a police brutality lawyer. Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6400, New York, NY 10118. Telephone (212) 736-0979. www.jcreiterlaw.com
