Protesters stand outside of the Public Safety Building on Exchange Boulevard on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2020. A medical expert called by state prosecutors to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of Daniel Prude told jurors that he believed Prude died of a sudden cardiac arrest, and that none of the police officers who arrested him caused his heart to fail. The testimony of Dr. Gary Vilke, an emergency room doctor in southern California, flew in the face of the findings of the Monroe County medical examiner, who had determined that Prude was suffocated by officers. Specifically, the medical examiner had found Prude died of “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint due to excited delirium due to acute phencyclidine intoxication,” an indication that Prude was high on PCP.
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On Tuesday, after an announcement that police officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude had been cleared by a grand jury, state Attorney General Letitia James revealed that a judge had approved the release of the grand jury records.
This was a surprise to many, especially the attorneys for the city police officers who had faced criminal charges. They had received no notice of a pending release of the records.
And, while the death of Daniel Prude has been the focus of national attention, the possible disclosure of grand jury materials would be seismic in its own way what some say is a detour from decades of legal practice and precedent in New York.