Concerns arise over alleged "Bite Mark" evidence, as city settles rape case lawsuit for $2.8M.

Detriot- Warren city officials have agreed to pay $2.8 million to a man who, more than two decades ago, was wrongfully convicted for the rape of a woman and spent almost 12 years in prison.

Jeffrey Moldowan was convicted in 1991 on attempted murder, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct charges involving his former girlfriend, who had been severely and permanently injured and left on a Detroit street in 1990. In 2002, the case was thrown out, and a 2003 retrial resulted in an acquittal. A co-defendant, Michael Cristini, was acquitted the following year. In 2005, Moldowan sued the city, a police detective, a bite mark expert who had testified at his trial, Macomb County and the Prosecutor's Office. A lawsuit filed by Cristini in 2007 is pending, according to the Associated Press.

Moldowan, now 41, filed a lawsuit in 2005, claiming his civil rights were violated by a bungled police investigation and the decision to hold a second trial. He also sued Dr. Alan Warnick, whose bite-mark testimony was crucial in the 1991 trial. Warnick reached an out-of-court settlement in August.

 Trial for the remaining defendants in the lawsuit — Macomb County and current Prosecutor Eric Smith — is scheduled before District Judge David Lawson for Nov. 2.
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