Carthens v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to recover damages for false arrest and malicious prosecution, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hurowitz, J.), entered January 31, 1989, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiff and against it in the principal sum of $150,000.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is dismissed.
The plaintiff, who generally fit the description of the perpetrator, was identified by an eyewitness and arrested and indicted, inter alia, for murder in the second degree. At the Grand Jury proceeding, it was…
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