Close
KTAR.com
News
Shows
Blogs
KTAR News on 92.3FM

Man convicted in 1st retrial of ex-sleuth’s troubled legacy

CORRECTS NAME TO LOUIS SCARCELLA NOT VINCENT SCARCELLA - Eliseo DeLeon is greeted by his lawyer Cary London in the hallway at the Kings County Supreme Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022. Justice Dena Douglas rendered a guilty verdict in the first retrial to result from almost a decade of scrutiny of former New York City homicide detective, Louis Scarcella, who was seen as a case-cracking star in the 1980s and '90s, but was later accused of framing suspects. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) CORRECTS NAME TO LOUIS SCARCELLA NOT VINCENT SCARCELLA - Cary London, Eliseo DeLeon's lawyer, speaks to reporters in the hallway at the Kings County Supreme Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022. Justice Dena Douglas rendered a guilty verdict in the first retrial to result from almost a decade of scrutiny of former New York City homicide detective, Louis Scarcella, who was seen as a case-cracking star in the 1980s and '90s, but was later accused of framing suspects. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) CORRECTS NAME TO LOUIS SCARCELLA NOT VINCENT SCARCELLA - Eliseo DeLeon walks with his lawyer Cary London though the hallway at the Kings County Supreme Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022. Justice Dena Douglas rendered a guilty verdict in the first retrial to result from almost a decade of scrutiny of former New York City homicide detective, Louis Scarcella, who was seen as a case-cracking star in the 1980s and '90s, but was later accused of framing suspects. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) CORRECTS NAME TO LOUIS SCARCELLA NOT VINCENT SCARCELLA - Eliseo DeLeon is greeted by his lawyer Cary London in the hallway at the Kings County Supreme Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday Aug. 31, 2022. Justice Dena Douglas rendered a guilty verdict in the first retrial to result from almost a decade of scrutiny of former New York City homicide detective, Louis Scarcella, who was seen as a case-cracking star in the 1980s and '90s, but was later accused of framing suspects. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah) FILE -- Retired NYPD detective Louis Scarcella, leaves Kings County Supreme Court, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July. 27, 2022. Eliseo DeLeon was convicted again, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in the first retrial stemming from scrutiny of Scarcella, the once-lauded New York City homicide detective, who was later accused of framing suspects.(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)