People v. Shields

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered February 14, 1979, convicting him of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. In the early morning hours of May 24, 1977, a man wearing a mask raped the complainant in the second-floor hallway of the Brooklyn apartment building where she lived. The man also forced his victim to perform oral sex upon him. While this was occurring, the complainant’s boyfriend and girlfriend became concerned about the…