Legal Opinion
Tretola v. County of Nassau
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 16, 2014No. 08-CV-3225 (DRH)(WDW)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED * MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
HURLEY, Senior District Judge.
Martin Tretola, Marbles Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a T & T Gunnery, brought suit against the County of Nassau and “Police Officer Faltings,” alleging that he was falsely arrested for reckless endangerment on June 1, 2007 and was thereafter maliciously prosecuted for that purported offense.1 The case was tried before a jury over a period of six days in August of 2012, at the conclusion of which the jury returned a verdict in plaintiffs’ favor for $5,000,000, consisting of $2,000,000 in compensatory damages and $3,000,000 in punitive…
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