People v. Ramirez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), rendered June 17, 2011, convicting him of predatory sexual assault against a child (two counts), criminal sexual act in the first degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the County Court deprived him of his constitutional right to confront adverse witnesses by, in effect, improperly curtailing or otherwise restricting his attorney’s cross-examination of the child complainant and of the nurse…