People v. Karika

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tioga County (Sgueglia, J.), rendered February 9, 2007, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of criminal sexual act in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree (two counts).

Defendant, who at the time was 23 years old, was indicted on one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree and two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree based upon the accusations of the 13-year-old female victim. After a jury trial, at which the victim and defendant gave widely divergent accounts of the incident, defendant was convicted as…