Overview

• Huffington’s lawsuit, filed July 15 in Baltimore federal court, names former State’s Attorney Joseph Cassilly, Assistant State’s Attorney Gerard Comen, three deceased detectives and one living investigator.
• He accuses the defendants of malicious prosecution, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress tied to withheld evidence and flawed hair analysis.
• Cassilly was disbarred in 2021 for concealing exculpatory evidence during the 1981 double murder prosecution.
• A 2013 vacatur followed DNA testing that disproved the hair match linking Huffington to the slayings after he spent 32 years behind bars, including a decade on death row.
• He received a full pardon from Gov. Larry Hogan in January 2023 and $2.9 million in compensation later that year before launching this civil action.