New York City has settled three civil rights claims without any lawsuit ever being filed.

One of the individuals who settled, David Ranta, was convicted in the death of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in a robbery that went wrong in 1990, and spent 23 years in prison despite the fact that police couldn’t find any physical evidence to prove that it was him, added to the fact that the diamond courier didn’t identify him, according to an Associated Press report.

He was released in March 2013 and settled last year for $6.4 million after filing a $150 million notice of claim.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer said the settlement is in the “best interests of all parties” and brings closure to a “truly regrettable episode in our city’s history,” he said according to the report.

In another case, a mentally ill former Marine, Jerome Murdough, died last year after being left unattended in a cell in stifling 101-degree heat due to equipment that was not working properly. Murdough, who was 56 at the time, was arrested a week before on misdemeanor trespassing charges. His family didn’t find out about it until the Associated Press contacted them a month later.

The city settled with the family for $2.25 million, although they had been asking for $25 million.

Stringer said he hopes that the settlement “provides some small measure of closure for the family of Mr. Murdough.”

The family’s attorney said they received a sum that would have been comparable to what a jury would have given them, and the family didn’t want to go through a court fight.

Finally, a judge tossed murder convictions last year for three half brothers: Alvena Jennette, Robert Hill, and Darryl Austin, who were spending a combined 60 years in prison. They were convicted based on a detective who relied on witnesses who were addicted to crack, and the Brooklyn district attorney decided to disavow the convictions after a “comprehensive review” of the detective’s cases in 2013 after another man was released based on allegations he had coached the witness.

Each of them sought $150 million, but settled for a total of $17 million. Austin had passed away 14 years ago in prison, and his mother will get $3.85 million, while Hill was set to receive $7.15 million and Jennette received $6 million.