Slain Student's Kin Settle Suit Against NYC Bar

The family of a graduate student murdered by a bouncer has settled a lawsuit against the bar where he worked.
    
The Daily News reported Sunday that Imette St. Guillen's family settled the suit before Darryl Littlejohn's trial started last month.
    
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but a lawyer for St. Guillen's family said the relatives would use some of the money to support a foundation set up to honor her.
    
Littlejohn, a 44-year-old ex-con, was convicted Wednesday in the 2006 slaying. His lawyer has said Littlejohn plans to appeal the conviction.
    
St. Guillen, 24, went to The Falls early on Feb. 24, 2006 and stayed past closing. Witnesses said she was asked to leave, and Littlejohn escorted her out.
    
St. Guillen's body was found wrapped in a quilt along a desolate road in Brooklyn. She was bound and gagged and had been beaten and sexually assaulted before being asphyxiated.
    
The bar was owned by the same family that ran Dorrian's Red Hand, the tavern where ``preppie killer'' Robert Chambers met Jennifer Levin before strangling her during rough sex in the 1980s -- a connection Littlejohn's lawyers emphasized in his trial.
    
Littlejohn's lawyer, Joyce David, claimed that bar manager Danny Dorrian framed Littlejohn in the slaying. Dorrian testified that he had nothing to do with St. Guillen's killing.
    
St. Guillen was a graduate student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the time of her death.
    
Besides the action against Littlejohn her family has three other suits pending -- against the federal probation department, the state parole board and a company where Littlejohn took bounty-hunting classes.