People v. Beam

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Smyk, J.), rendered November 30, 1978, upon a verdict convicting defendant of three counts of the crime of sodomy in the first degree. In April and May of 1978, several male teenagers in the Binghamton area reported being sexually assaulted. The pattern of these encounters was essentially the same; the assailant first offered the victim marihuana and lured him to a point near a river, telling the victim along the way that he was from out of town. He would suddenly begin choking the victim, and then force him to engage in French…