Livingston v. State

—In a claim for damages for wrongful conviction and imprisonment pursuant to Court of Claims Act § 8-b, the claimant appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims (Weisberg, J.), dated April 4, 1995, which, after a non-jury trial, dismissed the claim.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The claimant’s decedent was convicted of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. This Court reversed the judgment of conviction (see, People v Livingston, 157 AD2d 859), and, after a retrial, the decedent was acquitted. Thereafter, the decedent…