People v. Hicks

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Zambelli, J.), rendered June 8, 2012, convicting him of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree (two counts), and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s challenge to the Supreme Court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371 [1974]). In making its ruling, the court engaged in the requisite balancing of probative value against prejudicial effect, and reached an…