Scandal-embattled former NYPD homicide Detective Louis Scarcella took his final turn on the stand against one of his old murder convicts in Brooklyn Supreme Court Friday and remained firm in his claim that he never, ever was a bad cop.
“Is it your testimony that you never did anything wrong in any of your cases?” defense lawyer Ron Kuby asked Scarcella at one point.
“Exactly,” the ex-cop snapped.
Kuby and Scarcella are adversaries in a half-dozen Brooklyn exoneration cases once headed by the one-time star detective. In the current case, Sundhe Moses seeks to overturn his conviction for the 1995 murder of 4-year-old Shamone Johnson.
Moses has insisted that Scarcella choked him, threw a chair at him and forced him to strip naked to elicit his false confession.
“Is it true that on the ‘Dr. Phil’ show you stated, ‘I will do whatever I have to do within the law to get a confession’ . . . ‘I will lie to them, I will use deception,’ ” Kuby asked Scarcella at one point.
But Justice Dineen Riviezzo interrupted, setting June 26 for Moses’ next hearing.