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10/18/2002 12:37 PM

No New Charges For Officers Implicated In Louima Case

By: NY1 News

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Two former police officers implicated in the 1997 torture of Abner Louima will not face any new charges.

State and federal prosecutors said they don't have enough evidence to bring Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder to trial. The two former officers were convicted in 2000 on charges they misled a federal grand jury, but an appeals court threw out the verdict in February.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes had suggested filing charges against the officers if the U.S. Attorney declined, but Hynes has since closed the case as well.

Two other officers have been convicted in the case. Justin Volpe is serving a 30 year sentence for sodomizing Louima with a broom handle.

Last month, Charles Schwarz was sentenced to a maximum of five years behind bars for perjury.

Meanwhile, an appeals court Thursday upheld a $$1.2 million verdict against the city that found it violated the rights of 24 NYPD employees by transferring them to the precinct where Abner Louima was tortured.

A federal court jury awarded $$50,000 to each of the black and Hispanic officers, who said the city made race-based transfers after the Haitian immigrant was sodomized in Brooklyn's 70th Precinct stationhouse back in 1997.

Two days after the attack, city officials met with Brooklyn community leaders who then requested the officers be moved to the precinct.

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