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Arthur J. Levy, Appellant, v State of New York, Respondent.
    (Claim No. 62145-A.)
    Argued November 12, 1982;
    decided December 14, 1982
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Arthur J. Levy, appellant pro se.
    
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Peter H. Schiff and Richard J. Dorsey of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs. The Special Prosecutor, and thus the State, was entitled to absolute immunity from a libel action based on an affirmation submitted in the course of a judicial proceeding (Imbler v Pachtman, 424 US 409, 421-423; see Toker v Pollak, 44 NY2d 211, 220).

Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Meyer.