People v. Phillips

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), rendered April 5, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree (three counts), sodomy in the first degree (five counts), robbery in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him to nine consecutive terms of 8V3 to 25 years to run concurrently with a term of 2V3 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant did not indicate to the trial court that he was so hearing impaired as to require interpretive assistance, as he now claims, and the record indicates that he responded…