Legal Opinion
People v. Copp
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 11, 1992PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrew Iii, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Danaher, Jr., J.), rendered September 29, 1989, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree.
*860Defendant, a patient at the behavioral science unit of St. Joseph’s Hospital in the City of Elmira, Chemung County, was convicted of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse of a fellow patient, all accomplished by means of forcible compulsion. On this appeal defendant contends that the People failed to prove the element of forcible compulsion, that he…
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