Legal Opinion
People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 9, 2010PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (DeRosa, J.), rendered June 25, 2008, convicting him of rape in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
*867The complainant’s testimony that the defendant committed uncharged acts of sexual abuse and rape against her, from the time she was seven or eight years old, was properly admitted into evidence at trial as relevant to prove the absence of consent, a necessary element of the crime of rape in the third degree (see People v Cook, 93 NY2d 840, 841…
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- People v. TaylorNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
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