People v. Maymi

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Failla, J.), rendered July 2, 1991, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree, and sentenced him, as a second felony offender, to a term of imprisonment of 6V2 to 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

The expert testimony regarding rape trauma syndrome was admissible to assist the jury in understanding why the victim told her boyfriend about the rape the day after it occurred but had refrained from telling her mother and the police until two weeks later as consistent with "patterns of response exhibited by rape…