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Daniel Magadan, Jr. is a petty criminal who murdered Detective Max Greevey in order to silence his grand jury testimony.

Background[]

Magadan was arrested five times and convicted three times, but he never confessed or took guilty pleas. One of these arrests happened in 1989 when he was arrested for stealing a semi-truck filled with microwaves. A police sergeant tortured him with a cigar to make him confess, but Madagan would not budge. At some point, he became part of conspiracy with his boss Morgan Stern involving construction embezzlement, where supply payments were skimmed to keep illegal profits. The operations were tied to the mob and escalated as far as illegal payoffs and extortion.

Stern was later indicted by a grand jury after a building inspector named Janklow stumbled onto their conspiracy and Madagan pushed him off a rooftop. Madagan later found out his father, Daniel Madagan, Sr., was appointed as the jury foreman in the grand jury, and Madagan tried to extract some important information out of him. His father warned him that Sergeant Max Greevey was going to be testifying and recommended that he should stay away. Plotting to suppress Greevey's testimony, Madagan got a woman at the DMV his cousin knew to give up Max's address.

Confession[]

While Greevey was getting some paperwork from his car, Madagan approached him and tried to intimidate him into not providing his testimony to the grand jury. When Greevey refused, Madagan pulled out a gun he stole from his company’s office trailer, forced Greevey to kneel against his car, and shot him three times, killing him, with his wife witnessing the murder. Madagan went into hiding immediately afterwards, but Detective Logan, Greevey's partner, persuaded Madagan's father to give up his location in exchange for taking him in alive. When Madagan saw Logan, he attempted to flee, but was caught and held at gunpoint by Logan as he demanded a confession. After turning his gun's safety off to scare Magadan and force the issue, Logan got Magadan to confess to killing Greevey, and he lowered his gun.

Logan then took him back to the 27th Precinct and Sergeant Phil Cerreta took his statement. When Madagan was arraigned, his legal aid attorney reported that the confession was coerced, but bail was denied. ADA Robinette visited Magadan in prison and he told Robinette with his attorney present about Logan putting a gun to his head. He told him that the click of the gun scared him into confessing. Magadan's confession was thrown out as evidence, but it was allowed back in after Robinette found a legal loophole: Magadan's lawyer mistakenly agitated a witness to blurt it out. As a result, Magadan was found guilty of Greevey's murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

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