
William McCaffery is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages, as well as another $10 million for what he calls "conduct...so outrageous as to exceed the bounds of all common and civilized decency."
McCaffrey was sentenced in 2006 after Biurny Peguero Gonzalez testified that he and two other men raped her at knife point in a van parked in Upper Manhattan in September 2005. She later recanted that statement, and admitted she made the whole thing up in order to cover for a fight with some of her female friends. [To see all the posts where this case was discussed on this blog, go here: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/search?q=Peguero]
McCaffrey also says prosecutors sat on Peguero's recantation of her false allegations for two months after learning she had confessed to her priest, and "continued to oppose McCaffrey's release" despite defense DNA testing that proved one of Peguero's friends had bitten her. Peguero was sentenced last year to up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to perjury for framing McCaffrey.
Link: http://gothamist.com/2011/03/10/rape_liar_victim_suing_the_city_for.php