Dozier v. State of New York

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (Hanifin, J.), entered September 17, 1986, which dismissed the claim.

In March 1980, claimant was convicted of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree based on an incident which occurred in a graduate dormitory at Cornell University where claimant and the complainant both resided in August 1979. Claimant’s conviction was based virtually entirely on the testimony of the complainant. According to the trial testimony, both claimant and the complainant had just returned to school for the fall semester and had been casually acquainted for…