People v. Washpon

Appeal by the defendant from *385a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vinik, J.), rendered September 13, 1985, convicting him of rape in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On this appeal, the defendant urges that the trial court erroneously curtailed the cross-examination of the victim. This court has recognized that where the answers sought would tend to establish the untruthfulness of a witness’s testimony with respect to the specific event of the crime charged, it is error to curtail that line of questioning (see, e.g.,…