The $250 million lawsuit was filed more than a
decade ago on behalf of five black and Hispanic defendants convicted in 1990 of
raping and beating a white woman jogging in the park a year earlier.
Each served
six to 13 years in prison. Their convictions were tossed in 2002 after evidence
emerged linking someone else to the crime.
New York City has agreed to a $40 million settlement
in a civil rights lawsuit filed against police and prosecutors by the five men
exonerated in the 1989 Central Park jogger attack, a city official said Friday.
