People v. Rackis

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Montgomery County (Aison, J.), rendered January 15, 1992, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of driving while intoxicated, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.

At about 10:30 p.m. on September 28, 1990, Stephanie Pelcher, a resident of 22 Elizabeth Street in the City of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, heard a car pull up outside her residence. She looked out and observed a car in the parking spot that she had vacated about 15 minutes earlier so that her husband,…