People v. Gonzalez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Slavin, J.), rendered April 22, 1986, convicting him of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues, inter alia, that the prosecution failed to prove forcible compulsion as defined in Penal Law § 130.00 (8) and as required in Penal Law § 130.35 (1) and § 130.50 (1). We disagree. Forcible compulsion can be inferred from the facts leading up to the rape and/or sodomy (see, People v Gomez, 112…