People v. Grubbs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leif, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered on or about September 11, 1984, convicting defendant of the crimes of attempted sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, reversed, on the law, and a new trial ordered.
We would reverse based upon the prosecution’s improper bolstering of the complainant’s identification testimony.
In the early morning hours of April 7, 1984, complainant was the victim of an attempted rape. She was accosted at knifepoint in the elevator of her apartment building by a black male whom she described as 5…
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