Taylor v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mahoney, J.

This appeal concerns claimant’s entitlement to damages under the Unjust Conviction and Imprisonment Act (Court of Claims Act § 8-b); more particularly, whether he satisfied his heavy burden of proving that he did not by his own conduct cause or bring about the assertedly unjust conviction within the meaning of Court of Claims Act § 8-b (5) (d). Briefly, the claim arises out of claimant’s 1974 conviction, along with codefendant Mary Lou Lynch, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree for selling heroin to Jon Hansen, an undercover police…