Baba-Ali v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Melvin L. Schweitzer, J.

Claimant Amine Baba-Ali was wrongfully convicted on charges that he sexually abused his four-year-old daughter, including rape and sodomy. He was imprisoned for over two years — 783 days — on multiple concurrent sentences, the longest of which was for 8V3 to 25 years, primarily in maximum security prisons, before his conviction was reversed on grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct (People v Baba-Ali, 179 AD2d 725 [2d Dept 1992]). As prosecutors prepared to re-try him, it was confirmed that the only witness who had…