WATERMAN v. STATE OF NEW YORK


207 Misc. 773 (1955)

Paul Waterman, Claimant, v. State of New York, Defendant. (Claim No. 32473.)

Court of Claims.

March 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilfred E. Hoffman and Robert W. Hartnett for claimant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Quentin E. Grant of counsel), for defendant.


RYAN, J.

Claimant sues the State of New York for damages for being detained in its penal institutions, first at Elmira Reformatory and later at Attica Prison, for one year, ten months and twenty-nine days in excess of five years, his maximum sentence. On October 25, 1945, claimant pleaded guilty to the crime of robbery in the third degree. On November 28, 1945, the County Court of Onondaga County, upon claimant...

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