People v. Jackson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered May 31, 2007, convicting him of rape in the first degree and robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*720Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On April 1, 1996, the complainant was working at a beauty salon in Queens when she was raped at gunpoint by a stranger, who also stole money from her and the salon register. A sexual assault kit was prepared at that time utilizing semen recovered from the complainant. In November 2005 the DNA sample from the sexual assault kit…