Woman claims her daughter lied to police to get Ocean Hill man convicted of murder
An Ocean Hill man is seeking to have his 2006 murder conviction overturned, claiming that one of the main witnesses in his case deliberately lied to the NYPD to implicate him.
James Davis was convicted of shooting Blake Harper at a 2004 party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. His Legal Aid Society lawyers claim there was no physical or forensic evidence to tie Davis to the crime and that his conviction rested on “disputed eyewitness testimony.”
A friend of Davis’ at the time, Tina “Titi” Black Jr., told police that Davis was involved in the shooting. Black died in 2013, but her mother testified before Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun on Wednesday that her daughter admitted years later she had lied about Davis’ involvement in the murder because he upset her.