Alexandre v. State

In a claim for damages for unjust 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. 7, 1989, which, after a nonjury trial, is in favor of the State of New York and against him.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

In June 1983 the claimant was convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree stemming from the discovery of a nine-millimeter pistol beneath the counter behind which he was standing at the grocery store where he worked. He was incarcerated pursuant…