People v. Parsons

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Michael A. Gross, J.), rendered May 30, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s application for a material witness order, and this ruling did not undermine defendant’s right to present a defense. In his written application and the oral argument thereon, defendant did not establish that there was “reasonable cause to believe” that the proffered…