People v. Allweiss

OPINION OF THE COURT

Wachtler, J.

The defendant was convicted at a jury trial of murdering a woman in her Manhattan apartment. The Appellate Division affirmed the conviction, with one Justice dissenting.

On this appeal the defendant primarily claims that the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence used to identify him as the killer. His main point, and the only one to produce disagreement at the Appellate Division, concerns the introduc*44tion of proof that, within five months of the homicide, the defendant committed, and prior to this trial pleaded guilty to, six rapes in which he employed…