A killer who threw an NYPD cop off a Times Square roof 35 years ago will soon have his fourth parole hearing in two years – pitting the officer’s family in a “nightmare” battle against a high-powered law firm that’s already sprung another cop killer.
Eddie Matos, who murdered Midtown South Officer Anthony Dwyer in October 1989, was granted repeated appeals with the help of lawyer Isaac Zaur, a partner at the Madison Avenue law firm Clarick Gueron Reisbaum.
“It’s like a joke and a nightmare,” said the slain cop’s younger sister Maureen Brisett, as she prepared to testify Friday with her two brothers and 83-year-old mom at the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s Midtown office. “I just don’t understand how he keeps getting chances and then he has these high-powered lawyers taking on his case.”
Forty-three NYC cop killers have been released since 2017 when the left-leaning state Parole Board, whose members were mostly appointed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, began letting cop killers off in droves under new rules…