How Long Before This Storyline Gets On Law & Order?

I’m guessing it is already in the works:

The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, had a problem. The murder convictions of two men in one of his office’s big cases — the 1990 shooting of a bouncer outside the Palladium nightclub — had been called into question by a stream of new evidence.

So the office decided on a re-examination, led by a 21-year veteran assistant, Daniel L. Bibb.

Mr. Bibb spent nearly two years reinvestigating the killing and reported back: He believed that the two imprisoned men were not guilty, and that their convictions should be dropped. Yet top officials told him, he said, to go into a court hearing and defend the case anyway. He did, and in 2005 he lost.

But in a recent interview, Mr. Bibb made a startling admission: He threw the case. Unwilling to do what his bosses ordered, he said, he deliberately helped the other side win.

He tracked down hard-to-find or reluctant witnesses who pointed to other suspects and prepared them to testify for the defense. He talked strategy with defense lawyers. And when they veered from his coaching, he cornered them in the hallway and corrected them.

“I did the best I could,” he said. “To lose.”

Annotation: The baseline is 101 days.

A Flickr Of Recognition

Technology is so, so cool:

A mugging victim spotted pictures on the Internet of people wearing the jewelry snatched from him after a night of clubbing, authorities said yesterday.

A short time after the May 6 heist, Charles Zamian, 24, found a Web site with pictures of people posing in his stolen jewelry, police said.

He forwarded the images to the cops, who sent investigators to the club where the victim had been partying the night he was mugged.

On Tuesday, they spotted one of the men in the pictures, Shamel Corbett, 23, of Brooklyn, hanging out in the club.

After Corbett left, they followed and arrested him, along with pals Fernando Francis and Jerome Davis, both 23 and from Brooklyn.

You Shoulda Seen What He Did With The Oysters

Brooklyn special — lobster freshly fallen off the back of a truck:

A cook at Brooklyn’s famed Junior’s Restaurant was charged with larceny yesterday after co-workers caught him with 15 frozen lobster tails stuffed down his pants and into bandages around his legs, cops said.

Prep cook Raymundo Flores, 40, was spotted in a walk-in freezer by colleague Adam Marks, allegedly taking lobster tails and stuffing them under the bandages early Sunday afternoon. After Marks alerted co-worker Joe Hanson, both men stopped Flores and called 911.

Police arrived and found the 15 tails hidden on Flores, whom they arrested.

Authorities said that staff at Junior’s — where twin lobster tails sell for $29.95 — had recently noticed lobster tails missing from the freezer.

Many things come to mind . . .

1) Is there a market for stolen lobster? That seems dangerous. Especially in this heat.

2) Isn’t the suspect at risk for frostbite on some very delicate parts of the body?

3) Lobster at Junior’s is apparently frozen, not fresh; must stick to cheesecake.

That Is Not What Is Meant By “Amateur” . . .

. . . asshole:

A Rockland County businessman was busted for posing as a Park Avenue gynecologist, authorities said yesterday.

A source told The Post further charges were expected against Zalman Silber, 40, for alleged sex crimes involving two female patients.

Silber was charged with two counts of unauthorized practice of a profession for posing as a gynecologist at adjacent offices on Park Avenue in 2004, law-enforcement sources said.

Silber, of Monsey, allegedly treated two women, ages 18 and 24.

In reality, Silber runs a tourist attraction in the Empire State Building that simulates a flight through New York, records show.

Everything On Dye Need-To-Know Basis

Either we need to be educated about the purpose of the dye or people really, really just don’t care to know how you came into possession of all that cash:

An Upper West Side bank robber — splattered from head to toe by an exploding dye pack left in his loot bag — nevertheless managed to hail a cab, buy drugs, rent a hotel room and hire a hooker before being caught, police sources said yesterday.

Maurice Hill, 46, who had allegedly stolen $3,000 from the Apple Bank at West 73rd Street and Broadway on Tuesday, was arrested — still covered in red dye — the next morning at a Bronx motel in the company of a prostitute, police sources said.

. . .

After Tuesday’s heist, an ink-stained Hill shelled out dye-covered cash for a cab ride to 116th Street, where he bought crack and got high, police sources said.

After several hours, he hopped another cab to the Pelham Garden Motel, where he paid for a $70 room with the stained cash, police sources said. The next morning, Hill got a drink from a nearby diner, where someone called Crime Stoppers.