Butler v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert E. Lynch, J., and a jury), entered August 8, 1990, in favor of plaintiffs Michael Leo and Michael Butler in the amounts of $35,000 and $20,000, respectively, together with prejudgment interest, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiffs sued the City of New York for false arrest and *407malicious prosecution after criminal charges against them were dismissed in 1977. In November 1983, a jury awarded plaintiffs $400,000 for false arrest while returning a defendant’s verdict on the claim for malicious prosecution. The court however, on a post-trial…