New York City has reached a $4 million settlement in a protracted false imprisonment and malicious prosecution case brought by a woman jailed for four years on a murder charge that ultimately was dropped.
David Perecman of the Perecman Firm in Manhattan said he agreed to the settlement Tuesday on behalf of Maria De Lourdes Torres. A trial in the two related civil claims brought by De Lourdes against New York City, Torres v. Jones, 24709/07 and 1590/10, was set to begin Jan. 23 in Queens Supreme Court.
