The People v. Mark A. Hartle

State of New York OPINION Court of Appeals This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. No. 17 The People &c., Respondent, v. Mark A. Hartle, Appellant. John A. Cirando, for appellant. Matthew L. Peabody, for respondent. GARCIA, J.: Defendant, convicted by a jury of multiple counts of rape and sexual abuse of a fifteen-year-old victim and sentenced to 54 years in prison, asks this Court to deem the summary denial of his motion to vacate his conviction an abuse of discretion. Because the evidence proffered by defendant as “newly discovered”…