Morales v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Alan C. Marin, J.

This is a claim brought under the Unjust Conviction and Imprisonment Act of 1984, section 8-b of the Court of Claims Act. Raul Morales was convicted of rape in the first degree and sentenced to a prison term of 12V2 to 25 years by a judgment rendered April 11, 1988. Years later the complaining witness changed her story, recanting at a hearing conducted under CPL article 440 at which the judgment was vacated and the *841indictment dismissed. Morales was released from custody after serving nine years and one month of his sentence.

At the criminal trial, Evelyn…