People v. Dozier

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tompkins County (Dean, J.), rendered August 14, 1980, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree. Defendant and complainant were housed in the same campus dormitory at Cornell University in August, 1979, prior to the commencement of the fall semester. Complainant was a law student and defendant was enrolled in the University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. They had met casually in the dormitory on two or three occasions prior to the alleged rape. As to the incident in…