CARTHENS v. CITY OF NEW YORK


168 A.D.2d 408 (1990)

Reginald Carthens, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 3, 1990


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 not disclosed that there were certain discrepancies between the description given by the eyewitness and the actual...

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