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Sentencing of Jersey City police officer convicted of stealing cash from man is postponed
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
The sentencing a Jersey City police officer who was convicted last year of stealing cash from a man was postponed at the last moment Wednesday morning.
The hearing for Denzel Suitt had been scheduled Wednesday morning before Hudson County Superior Court Judge John Young, but it has been rescheduled for June 2, court officials said.
Suitt was convicted of official misconduct and theft by unlawful taking related to a March 25, 2018 incident in which he stole money from the wallet of a man on Bayside Terrace. The jury verdict came after a one-week trial that Suitt’s supporters say was not fair.
BLESC, Black activists, rally around ex-Jersey City cop who they say was wrongfully convicted
By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View
On March 25, 2018, Police Officer Denzel Suitt conducted a stop of Jermaine Palms and Jonathan Davis, allegedly stealing $600 in the process, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. A jury ultimately convicted him of theft in the value of $500 or less, official misconduct with a benefit not greater than $200.
The press event came after Real Garden State published an in-depth feature questioning the legitimacy of the case.
“Nearly all the circumstantial evidence, with his witness testimony and investigation conducted by the Jersey City PD Internal Affairs Unit and Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, has dubious issues,” BLESC President Anthony Smith said outside of their headquarters on Martin Luther King Drive yesterday.