Callicutt v. State Executive Department, Crime Victims Board

Proceedings pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by orders of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review two determinations of respondent which denied petitioners’ claims for benefits.

*690On August 22, 1995, Demere Hannah, Sr., petitioner Felicia Callicutt’s son and the father of petitioner Anneesha Smith’s child, was fatally shot in the City of Albany. On August 29, 1995 and September 4, 1995, respectively, Callicutt and Smith filed claims with respondent pursuant to Executive Law article 22. Following an investigation by respondent, Christina Hernandez, a member of…