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Dismissal Due to People’s Failure to Timely Indict Is Not a Termination in Favor of the Accused Which Will Support a Malicious Prosecution Cause of Action

The Second Department determined that the dismissal of prosecution based upon the People’s failure to procure a timely indictment is not a termination favorable to the accused.  A malicious prosecution cause of action, therefore, does not lie:

In order to recover damages for malicious prosecution, a plaintiff must establish four elements: that a criminal proceeding was commenced or initiated by the defendant; that it was terminated in favor of the accused; that it lacked probable cause; and that the proceeding was brought out of actual malice … . “[A]ny termination of a criminal prosecution, such that the criminal charges may not be brought again, qualifies as a favorable termination, so long as the circumstances surrounding the termination are not inconsistent with the innocence of the accused” … . Here, although the underlying criminal charges were dismissed against the plaintiff based on the prosecution’s unreasonable delay in indicting him …, under the circumstances of this case, the disposition was “inconsistent with the innocence of the accused” … . Thus, the defendants showed that the plaintiff’s allegation that the criminal proceeding was terminated in his favor was “not a fact at all” …, and that there is no significant dispute regarding it. Sinagra v City of New York,2015 NY Slip Op 02752, 2nd Dept 4-1-15

 

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