People v. Lewis

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Schenectady County (Stroebel, Jr., J.), rendered June 7, 1982, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crimes of burglary in the first degree and assault in the first degree.

On the evening of March 7, 1982, defendant and a codefendant forcibly broke into a woman’s apartment and allegedly raped and sodomized her, burglarized her apartment, threatened her with a gun, and stabbed her 13 times when she attempted to flee. Shortly thereafter, the codefendant was apprehended in the neighborhood of the victim’s apartment with her property in…