People v. Reedy

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed. Defendant, convicted after a jury trial of two counts of *827attempted rape in the first degree and sentenced as a persistent felony offender, seeks reversal and a new trial based on "fairness” and "a right sense of justice”.

These two altruistic goals do not support defendant’s claim that he was entitled to the personal version of the attack written by the victim, a free-lance writer, two days after the attack in Central Park. Defendant correctly concedes that this personal victim account constituted neither…