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C.J. Rice was freed from prison last year, and he says evidence in the 2011 shooting case was fabricated by the department.
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A South Philadelphia man who was wrongfully convicted in a 2011 shooting — leading to him spending more than a decade in prison — has filed a lawsuit against the city and seven police officers claiming his case fits a long pattern of the department’s misconduct in criminal investigation.
C.J. Rice’s case garnered national attention in recent years because of his friendship with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who advocated on Rice’s behalf and reported about his plight in a story for the Atlantic. Tapper, who grew up in Philadelphia, helped bring light to the holes in the investigation and the failures of the legal system that led to Rice’s conviction…