Legal Opinion

Thompson v. State

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 9, 2009PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

In a claim to recover damages for personal injuries based, inter alia, on negligence in the supervision of a corrections officer in a State prison, the claimant appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims (Ruderman, J.), dated August 28, 2007, which, after a nonjury trial, is in favor of the defendant and against her, dismissing the claim.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The claimant, then an inmate at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, allegedly was statutorily raped by a corrections officer several times in February 2002 and March 2002 (see Fenal Law § 130.05 [3]…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Northern Westchester Professional Park Associates v. Town of BedfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  2. Boyd v. BoydNew York Court of Appeals · 1930

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Baba-Ali v. State of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  2. Perez v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 2011

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