People v. Lewis

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered June 12, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree (four counts), sodomy in the first degree (four counts) and endangering the welfare of a child, and sentencing him to eight concurrent terms of 6 to 18 years concurrent with a term of 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in precluding defendant from introducing extrinsic evidence of an alleged prior inconsistent statement by the complainant on a subject that was collateral to the issues presented…