James A. Russell v. James Smith and City of New York

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• considering whether the recanted testimony or the recantation was corroborated by other trial evidence
• finding recantation “more suspect than most” because recanted testimony implicated witness’s brother
• “In the absence of a decision on the merits, the plaintiff must show that the final disposition is indicative of innocence.”
• “In the absence of a decision on the merits, the plaintiff must show that the final disposition is indicative of innocence.”
• “In the absence of a decision on .the merits, the plaintiff must show that the final disposition is indicative of innocence.”
• “Termination of the criminal charges in plaintiff’s favor is an essential element of the [malicious prosecution] claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).