People v. Cooper

Opinion by

Judge KAPELKE.

Defendant, Samuel W. Cooper, appeals a judgment of conviction entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of second degree burglary and assault on the elderly. We affirm.

The convictions arose from events that took place on March 1,1995, when defendant broke into his mother’s home in violation of a restraining order and assaulted her.

At trial, defendant testified that his mother had invited him to her home and that he had not physically assaulted her. The prosecution requested leave to cross-examine defendant concerning a prior incident on February 26,1995, which had…