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People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 3, 1999
262 A.D.2d 19 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

June 3, 1999.

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.).


By failing to object, by failing to make specific objections, and by failing to request any further relief after objections were sustained, defendant has not preserved his present challenges to the People's summation, and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review these claims, we would find that the challenged portions of the People's summation could not have deprived defendant of a fair trial in light of the overwhelming evidence of his guilt.

Defendant's assault on the victim by cutting her face with a broken bottle as she tried to evade him on the rooftop, causing permanent disfigurement, was completed before the subsequent rape and sodomy, which were perpetrated by means of other acts of forcible compulsion, and the original assault was not a material element of those crimes. Under these circumstances, the court lawfully imposed consecutive sentences for defendant's separate and distinct acts of assault, rape and sodomy ( see, People v. Eades, 198 A.D.2d 905, lv denied 83 N.Y.2d 804; People v. Brown, 66 A.D.2d 223, 226).

We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion.

Concur — Ellerin, P. J., Tom, Wallach and Friedman, JJ.


Summaries of

People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 3, 1999
262 A.D.2d 19 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

People v. Williams

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. DAVID WILLIAMS…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jun 3, 1999

Citations

262 A.D.2d 19 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
690 N.Y.S.2d 594

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