New York State has agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve a wrongful conviction claim brought by a man who spent three years in prison for the alleged rape of his 4-year-old daughter (See Settlement).
Amine Baba-Ali was convicted at a non-jury Queens trial in 1989 on charges that arose in the context of a bitter divorce and custody battle. In 1992, the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed the conviction on grounds of both prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance (179 AD2d 725).
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