1998: Judge Rules Against Syracuse Law Enforcement’s Appeal of Sonny’s Lawsuit

1998: Judge Rules Against Syracuse Law Enforcement’s Appeal of Sonny’s Lawsuit

400 428 Man Vs The Machine

Read the Judge’s order in his 2007 decision against the multiple Syracuse, New York law enforcement officers who unlawfully kidnapped Sonny, as a teenager, in 1998 and took him into an isolated satellite police office in the housing complex where they beat and sodomized him in an unlawful cavity search and seizure. This lawsuit created a bright red retaliation target on Sonny’s back, culminating in three future cases, with a price tag of being sentenced to prison for a total of 77 cumulative years.