People v. Shavers

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert L. Cohen, J.), rendered November 22, 1989, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of sodomy in the first degree (2 counts), and sexual abuse in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 3 to 9 years for the sodomy counts, and 2-Vs to 7 years for the sexual abuse count, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly permitted the seven-year-old complainant to testify under oath. The voir dire established that she understood the nature and consequences of an oath (CPL 60.20 [2]), since she knew the difference between the truth and…