Leid Stories - Brawley Part II - 08/15/13

Justice 26 Years Denied: The Real ‘Hoax’ in the Tawana Brawley Case (Part 2)

Leid Stories continues yesterday’s exposé on the most recent legal atrocity in the Tawana Brawley case – an illegal defamation judgment of almost $400,000 awarded Steven Pagones, Brawley’s attorney, Alton H. Maddox Jr., says.

A Dutchess County Supreme Court jury had linked Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in the same county, to the 1987 kidnapping and rape on Brawley over a four-day period that November, Maddox says.

Brawley, then 15, claimed that four white men in an old police-type car grabbed her off the street on her way home from school, took her to a remote area, drugged her and held her as a sex slave for four days before dumping her near the garbage-disposal area of a housing complex.