Calling for an end to “incessant discovery disputes” over Atlantic City Police Department internal affairs files, a federal judge in Camden has ordered the city to turn over every internal affairs file it generated from 2003 to 2014—roughly 2,000 files.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider of the District of New Jersey ordered the across-the-board production of files after the city simultaneously resisted turning over any files for officers other than the two who are defendants in the present case, Costantino v. City of Atlantic City, and claimed that a subset of the files would not be representative of Atlantic City’s conduct. Meanwhile, the city also is reserving its right to argue at trial that the handful of files it produced so far is not a representative sample, and it refuses to commit to a number it feels would be representative, Schneider said.
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