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John Giuca was born on 8 October, 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Discover John Giuca's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

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In her opening argument in Giuca's trial, lead prosecutor Nicolazzi offered a theory explaining the murder that she hoped to substantiate with testimony by Giuca's former girlfriend and by his best friend. She claimed Giuca's fantasies about being a crime boss had led him to form a gang known as the "Ghetto Mafia" and to orchestrate Fisher's murder. The prosecution accused Giuca of giving Russo a gun, bringing Fisher to Russo and participating in beating Fisher. Prosecution evidence included the witnesses’ hearsay accounts of what Russo had said about his own involvement and of Giuca's role in the murder.

The appeals court heard arguments on April 30, 2019 to determine whether Giuca should be granted a new trial. Mark Bederow, a former prosecutor turned criminal defense attorney, represented Giuca. He filed a brief arguing that the prosecution's key witness in the murder trial, John Avitto, had only testified to avoid incarceration for violating the terms of a drug-treatment program. This information had not been given to the defense at trial and Giuca argued that such a disclosure could have changed the outcome of the trial. Giuca's defense claimed evidence shows that prosecutors were in contact with officials from Avitto's drug treatment program to monitor his status. Prosecutors denied any arrangement with Avitto.

On June 11, 2019 the New York Court of Appeals ruled that, even if prosecutors had failed to disclose material that may have helped Giuca's defense, the outcome of the trial likely would have been the same. Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, writing for the majority of the court, wrote: "We hold that, to the extent there was any suppression of impeachment material, there is no reasonable possibility that the verdict would have been different if the information at issue had been disclosed.” Associate Judge Jenny Rivera wrote in a dissenting opinion that prosecutors had an obligation to provide the defense with information that may have supported arguments against Avitto's testimony. Associate Judges Leslie Stein, Michael J. Garcia, Rowan D. Wilson and Paul Feinman signed the majority opinion with DiFiore. Associate Judge Eugene Fahey took no part in the case.

On August 6, 2019, the Guica legal team filed a CPL 440.10 motion to vacate his conviction based on a taped interview where jailhouse informant John Ingram tells prosecutor Nicolazzi that Russo had confessed to him that he had killed Fisher alone, with his own gun. The tape was only handed over to the defense team by current ADA Melissa Carvajal, on June 4, 2018. In this newly filed motion, Bederow argues that Ingram’s interview is exculpatory for Giuca and by law should have been turned over to his lawyer before trial—13 years ago.

The state responded to the motion on November 26, indicating that the lead Prosecutor could not recall whether she had handed over the tape. Nonetheless, they affirm that there is “no reasonable possibility” that the Ingram recording would have led jurors to acquitting Guica. Guica responded this on January 31 outlining that had the jury known that (a) Russo admitted robbing and murdering Mark Fisher by himself and that Giuca refused to get rid of the murder weapon for him and (b) Nicolazzl's previous suppression of evidence of key witness John Avitto's motive to lie, (as per Justice Jenny Rivera's dissent on June 11, 2019, in People v. John Giuca, 33 NY3d 462, 483 (2019)), it is reasonably possible that the cumulative impact of this evidence, would have led to a different outcome at trial.

On February 7, 2018, a state appellate court in Brooklyn reviewing Nicolazzi's case against Giuca unanimously overturned the conviction and sent it back to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

On March 22, 2018, Antonio Russo confessed to killing Mark Fisher. In a statement that was passed along to Giuca's lawyer, Russo told detectives that he had committed the murder after leaving Giuca's home with Fisher, also stating that the gun was Russo's.

On February 20, June 28 and September 6, 2018, Giuca was denied bail despite having his conviction overturned.

On June 28, 2018, in a letter to the Brooklyn district attorney, New York's highest court announced it would hear Giuca's case, with oral arguments scheduled for April 30, 2019.

On June 9, 2016, Giuca was again denied in his appeal for a new trial. "I have denied the defendant's motion to vacate the judgment," Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun announced in court. The judge also ruled that Giuca had received a fair trial. Mark Bederow, Giuca's attorney, confirmed that he would appeal the verdict, saying "His rights were violated. I have no doubt that when it gets up on appeal, [the case] will be vacated."

In 2014, Giuca's ex-girlfriend, Lauren Calciano, officially recanted her testimony. She had originally testified that Giuca had told her that he had given Russo the gun to rob Mark Fisher. In recanting, Calciano asserted that she was pressured by prosecutors to incriminate Giuca.

In February 2014, an attorney acting for Giuca submitted a petition to Hynes' replacement as Brooklyn district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, requesting that the conviction be voided. In the petition, it was alleged there had been prosecutorial misconduct, a failure by the defense lawyer at trial to point out multiple inconsistencies in the prosecution's case and recantation of testimony by key prosecution witnesses.

On July 8, 2013, John Avitto recanted his testimony and testified in 2015, apologizing in open court to Giuca.

Using Giuliano's Jason Allo recordings, a legal brief was filed by Giuca's attorney Lloyd Epstein, arguing that Giuca did not receive a fair trial because Allo had failed to disclose his connection with and knowledge of people in the case. Giuca's lawyers said that "Allo's failure to disclose his personal knowledge of Giuca disqualified him as a juror regardless of whether he acquired this knowledge before or during the trial, or both." The Appellant Division 2nd Department denied the request for a hearing to review evidence of juror misconduct against Allo. Through his attorney, Allo has said the allegations made about him are not true. In November 2010, a panel of four judges ruled that even if alleged statements the former juror had made to Giuliano were true, there were no grounds for overturning Giuca's conviction. On May 14, 2013, federal judge Frederic Block denied Giuca's federal habeas petition.

Fisher's family was unhappy with how their son's murder was being investigated and felt that some officials were eager to have the case forgotten. Under pressure to get results in the high-profile case, police announced witnesses were being uncooperative. Media attention leading up to the 2005 Democratic primary for District Attorney frequently highlighted the investigation into Fisher's death, and much of the coverage was critical of the District Attorney's office for failing to apprehend the killers. In February 2004, D.A. Charles Hynes convened an “elite” task force led by Michael Vecchione and Anna Sigga-Nicolazzi.

Giuca and Russo were tried together, but with two separate juries. The felony murder rule allows a person to be held responsible for a murder committed in the course of a felony or by being complicit to the felony, regardless of intent. After three hours of deliberation, a jury found Giuca guilty on charges of second-degree murder, robbery and multiple counts of criminal possession of a firearm. Russo's jury took two days to find him guilty. In October 2005, Giuca and Russo were each given a sentence of 25 years to life.

After a year of little progress in the case, witnesses began to come forward, implicating Russo and Giuca. Russo was arrested on November 19, 2004, and Giuca was arrested on December 21, 2004.

On October 11, 2003, Giuca was out partying with friends in Manhattan. Mark Fisher, unknown to Giuca, ended up in the group's company after meeting a fellow student, Angel DiPietro, at an Upper East Side bar and following DiPietro and a girlfriend to Giuca's for an impromptu party. Also in attendance were Albert Cleary and Antonio Russo, neighborhood friends of Giuca.

John Giuca (born October 8, 1983) is an American convicted of second-degree felony murder in the 2003 death of 19-year-old Mark Fisher. Giuca's conviction was unanimously overturned in 2018 on grounds that lead prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi had withheld favorable evidence from the defense. However, the New York Court of Appeals reinstated Giuca's conviction in June 2019.

In the months leading up to the April 30th oral arguments, a large number of amicus curiae briefs were written in support of Giuca, from parties including the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Innocence Project, American Civil Liberties Union, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Center for Appellate Litigation, Office of the Appellate Defender and Chief Defenders Association of New York.

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