People v. Cardona

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J.), rendered August 8, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of rape in the second degree, and sentencing him to consecutive terms of 2Vs to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence that, in an incident that occurred shortly before the charged rapes, defendant showed pornographic pictures to the 13-year-old victim. This evidence was properly admitted to demonstrate defendant’s pattern of increasingly serious sexual conduct toward the victim leading up to the…