Javier Lorenzano Nunez, who spent nearly a year in jail after being arrested for a 1998 Phoenix murder, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
The lawsuit alleges he was “arrested without probable cause” and that police and prosecutors “committed gross negligence, false arrest, false imprisonment, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and defamation.”
Phoenix police and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the lawsuit…