State’s high court to hear case of college student murdered in 2003

July 6, 2018 By Raanan Geberer Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Court located at 45 Monroe Place. Photo by Don Evans

The NYS Appellate Division, Second Department, on Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights. Photo by Don Evans

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The murder case of John Giuca – involving a bar-hopping suburban college student who found himself at a Brooklyn house party where most of the people were strangers and was then shot dead – will now be heard by the state’s highest court, The Court of Appeals. According to The New York Times, the high court said it would hear Giuca’s case in a letter to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office that was released this week.

In 2005, Giuca was convicted by a Brooklyn jury of killing student Mark Fisher in 2003. At the time, prosecutors said that Giuca, a part-time student at John Jay College, was also a member of a gang called the “Ghetto Mafia,” and the gang’s boss had pressured Giuca to “get a body” to boost the gang’s credibility. Recently, a lower appeals court ruled that during the trial, the District Attorney’s Office had withheld the fact that one of the state’s key witnesses had been offered a deal in return for his testimony. At the trial, there were several theories offered as to how Giuca was involved in the murder.