Plaintiff claimed fabrication of evidence, suggestive identification procedures, and withholding exculpatory evidence; in first trial plaintiff prevailed only against one individual defendant and lost against City, damages awarded were $80,000; in subsequent retrial, plaintiff prevailed against two individual defendants and City, obtained $22 million in compensatory damages and a total of $40,000 in punitive damages against two individual defendants; retrial held proper based on defense misrepresentations that a defense witness would be imprisoned for years, when in fact he was released months after civil trial in exchange for his testimony.
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