{"id":122916,"date":"2026-02-04T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:49:10","slug":"former-marcy-corrections-officer-sues-new-york-for-5-million-after-acquittal-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122916\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Marcy Corrections Officer Sues New York for $5 Million After Acquittal | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Former Marcy Corrections Officer Sues New York for $5 Million After Acquittal\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69838d729375d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MARCY, N.Y. &#8212; A former Marcy Correctional officer who was cleared in the death of inmate Robert Brooks is suing New York State for $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Kieffer filed his claim on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Kieffer said that the State owes him back pay and damages after a jury acquitted him of all charges in Brooks&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The claim accuses the State of malicious prosecution, defamation and breach of contract.<\/p>\n<p>Kieffer and Mathew Galliher were acquitted at trial in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARCY, N.Y. &#8212; A former Marcy Correctional officer who was cleared in the death of inmate Robert Brooks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36363,9982,19993,9,11,10,27173,2352],"class_list":["post-122916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooks","tag-marcy","tag-marcy-correctional-facility","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-robert-brooks","tag-utica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}