A woman acquitted of killing her boyfriend with a gunshot to the head has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the city, saying the medical examiner never considered that the shooting could have been an accident.
Julissa Soto, 30, says she was “falsely arrested and imprisoned” for the death of Christopher Gresham by police at the 48th Precinct in May 2000, according to court papers filed in Bronx Supreme Court.
In May 1999, Gresham, 26, died of a single gunshot wound to the head at the couple’s Bronx apartment, authorities said. The death was ruled a homicide. Soto spent a year behind bars until she was acquitted in May 2001.
Spokespersons for the medical examiner and the Bronx DA declined comment.
Soto says a medical examiner “failed to disclose to the grand jury that Gresham’s death could have been an accident” and “then falsely claimed at trial that she had considered” it.