People v. Taylor

OPINION OF THE COURT

Hancock, Jr., J.

Defendant was tried before a jury on one indictment and convicted of separate crimes involving two different victims: i.e., rape and sodomy of Clara B. and attempted rape and sexual abuse of Elizabeth G. In defendant’s appeal of the Appellate Division’s affirmance of his convictions, we address two issues: (1) on the rape and sodomy counts, whether the trial court erred in admitting — under the hearsay exception for a past recollection recorded — a police officer’s phone message with a license plate number allegedly belonging to defendant’s car; and, (2) on…