People v. Mercado

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Silverman, J., at hearing, jury trial and sentence), rendered March 25, 1988, convicting defendant of two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon to two consecutive terms of imprisonment of 3 Vi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant was indicted for the June 15, 1986 sodomy and sexual abuse of a nine-year-old boy, Louis, and for the attempted sexual abuse of Louis’ 11-year-old brother, Manuel. The jury returned a verdict convicting Mercado of two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree…