People v. Maynard

*318Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John A. Barone, J.), rendered May 22, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of rape in the first degree, and sentencing him to consecutive terms of five years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting testimony by the victim’s grandfather that defendant had come to the victim’s apartment building and indicated that a friend of the victim wanted to see her, and that when the grandfather would not permit defendant to see the victim, defendant made a throat-cutting gesture to the grandfather. This…