Why did Maddox and Rev. Al Sharpton make a post-judgment motion to vacate and set aside the judgments in the defamation trial under CPLR Section 5015?
Maddox found a Brawley grand juror in Idaho who executed an affidavit asserting that the grand jury had been denied the right to conduct the grand jury investigation and to write a grand jury report as required under Article 190 of the Criminal Procedure Law. Instead, it had been written by Abrams after he had manipulated the grand jury. This means that Abrams lied to the public and his deputy attorney general, Jack Ryan, had perpetrated perjury at the defamation trial when he testified to the authentication of the grand jury report. By law, the grand jury report, which Abrams claimed had accused Tawana of perpetrating a “hoax,” should still be suppressed and the money judgments should be reversed because Abrams perpetrated a fraud on the jury and the public. The Appellate Division, Second judicial Department would later rule that it had no jurisdiction to interfere with prosecutorial misconduct. This allowed the bogus “hoax” claim to stand.
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