Levy v. State

Order, Court of Claims (Weisberg, J.), entered February 3, 1981, reversed, on the law, and the defendant-appellant’s motion to dismiss the complaint granted, without costs. Plaintiff, a former Assistant District Attorney who injected himself in behalf of a criminal defendant in the latter’s prosecution, has sued appellant State for alleged defamation in papers filed in the criminal prosecution by an Assistant Attorney-General (Office of the Special Prosecutor), in response to those submitted by plaintiff herein. As to individual defendants in this suit, dismissal of the complaint was proper,…