Washington v. State of New York

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (Milano, J.), entered May 10, 2016, which, among other things, granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the amended claim.

In 1997, claimant was convicted of two counts of burglary in the first degree and other crimes and was sentenced, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate prison term of 25 years, and his motion to vacate the judgment of conviction was denied (People v Washington, 282 AD2d 375 [2001], lv denied 96 NY2d 925 [2001]). 1 As relevant here, in 2014, claimant filed an inmate grievance asserting that…