People v. Fields

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered April 1, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 3 to 6 years and 2V2 to 5 years; respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court correctly applied the Rape Shield Law (CPL 60.42) to preclude evidence of the victim’s sexual conduct with a man other than defendant earlier on the night of the crime, at a different location. Defendant’s contention that the intoxicated victim could have confused defendant’s…