Legal Opinion
People v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 3, 1999PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weissman, J.), rendered June 13, 1996, convicting him of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The complainant’s testimony that the defendant had killed his son-in-law several years before he raped and sodomized her and that the defendant had previously exhibited abusive *411behavior towards her was properly admitted to establish her state of mind for the purpose of proving the forcible…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- People v. ElyNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- People v. MehmediNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- People v. CookNew York Court of Appeals · 1999
- People v. GeorgeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- People v. MorrisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
- People v. BrownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000