Opinion
July 13, 1990
Appeal from the Erie County Court, Drury, J.
Present — Denman, J.P., Boomer, Pine, Balio and Lowery, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: The testimony of the infant victims that defendant, their mother's boyfriend, had previously disciplined them by beating them with an extension cord, belts, or switches, was properly admitted to show the victims' continuing fear of defendant as evidence of forcible compulsion (see, People v. Thompson, 158 A.D.2d 563).
We reject defendant's contention that prosecutorial misconduct deprived him of a fair trial.