People v. Lewis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
The defendant was convicted of various crimes for sexually assaulting three women in their apartment buildings in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn over the course of an eight-month period. He failed to preserve for appellate review his objection to the Supreme Court’s Molineux ruling (see People v Molineux, 168 NY 264 [1901]), which allowed the People to argue that similar statements made by the perpetrator during the three assaults tended to show that the same person committed all three assaults and was probative of a modus operand! (see CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, where a defendant…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- People v. . MolineuxNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- People v. SandovalNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
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- People v. HayesNew York Court of Appeals · 2002
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