{"id":465,"date":"2010-05-19T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2015-03-13T02:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T02:25:21","slug":"mob-copsfine-whine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Mob cops&#8217;fine whine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newyorkpost_oe3-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-296\" src=\"http:\/\/new.israelgreenwald.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newyorkpost_oe3-1.gif\" alt=\"newyorkpost_oe3-1\" width=\"355\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>By DOUGLAS MONTERO and DAN MANGAN<\/h1>\n<p>May 19, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Imprisoned mob cop Louis Eppolito&#8217;s new attorney griped to federal appeals judges yesterday that the ex-NYPD detective wasn&#8217;t allowed to testify in his own defense after his trial lawyer threatened him by saying, &#8220;I would attack you if you take the stand.&#8221;<br \/>\nEppolito&#8217;s appeals lawyer, Joseph Bondy, claimed that trial lawyer Bruce Cutler also botched the cop&#8217;s defense by not properly arguing that the prosecution of Eppolito for murders at the behest of the Luchese crime family was barred by the statute of limitations.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s unheard of for a defense attorney to cede a crucial part of the case,&#8221; Bondy told the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.<br \/>\nCo-defendant Stephen Caracappa&#8217;s appeals lawyer, Dan Nobel, told that panel that the ex-detective&#8217;s conviction should be reversed because of &#8220;prosecutorial misconduct&#8221; at the 2006 trial in Brooklyn.<br \/>\nNobel said that prosecutors &#8220;overstepped their bounds&#8221; during closing arguments by claiming that a conversation between turncoat witness Burton Kaplan and another witness was the equivalent of a priest receiving someone&#8217;s confession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DOUGLAS MONTERO and DAN MANGAN May 19, 2010 Imprisoned mob cop Louis Eppolito&#8217;s new attorney griped to federal appeals judges yesterday that the ex-NYPD detective wasn&#8217;t allowed to testify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-from-2010-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}