NEW YORK (AP) NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit
brought by a woman who claimed ”Dateline NBC: To Catch A
Predator” led her brother to kill himself after camera crews and
police officers showed up at his home in a televised sex sting.

”The matter has been amicably resolved to the satisfaction of
both parties,” said a statement released by both sides.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Patricia Conradt’s lawsuit had claimed her brother, an assistant
prosecutor in suburban Dallas, fatally shot himself after he was
accused of engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an
adult posing as a 13-year-old boy.

The lawsuit claimed NBC ”steamrolled” authorities to arrest
Louis William Conradt Jr. after telling police he failed to show up
at a sting operation 35 miles away.

NBC was working with the activist group Perverted Justice on the
sting, in which people impersonating children established online
chats with men and tried to lure them to a house, where they were
met by TV cameras and police.

In February, a federal judge issued a scathing ruling in the
case, saying a jury might conclude the network ”crossed the line
from responsible journalism to irresponsible and reckless intrusion
into law enforcement.”

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said the lawsuit contained
sufficient facts to make it plausible that the suicide was
foreseeable, that police had a duty to protect Conradt from killing
himself and that the officers and NBC acted with deliberate
indifference.

New episodes of ”To Catch A Predator” ended in December, with
the future of the series uncertain.

”Right now we are working on other investigative stories
focusing on national security and the economy,” NBC spokeswoman
Jenny Tartikoff said in an e-mail. ”If we do more, we want to make
sure we are complementing past investigations not just repeating
them.”