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People v. Lingenau

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Aug 17, 1987
133 A.D.2d 176 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)

Opinion

August 17, 1987

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Finnegan, J.).


Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by providing that the sentences are to run concurrently with each other; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The 14-year-old complainant admitted that she was unable to accurately estimate a person's height and that she was mistaken in some of the details of her initial description of her assailant which did not correspond to the defendant's appearance. However, she located the scene of the crime, the defendant's apartment house, prior to recognizing the defendant on the street and she testified that she was certain he was the assailant because she remembered his face and his acne-covered back. It was the jury's proper function to weigh the complainant's credibility and resolve the conflicts in the evidence (see, People v. Bauer, 113 A.D.2d 543, lv denied 67 N.Y.2d 648, 880). Upon the exercise of our factual review power, we are satisfied that the evidence established the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (CPL 470.15).

In the exercise of our discretion, we modify the judgment so as to provide that the sentences are to run concurrently (see generally, People v. Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80).

We have reviewed the defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his pro se brief, and find them to be without merit. Niehoff, J.P., Weinstein, Rubin and Kooper, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

People v. Lingenau

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Aug 17, 1987
133 A.D.2d 176 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)
Case details for

People v. Lingenau

Case Details

Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. FREDERICK LINGENAU…

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

Date published: Aug 17, 1987

Citations

133 A.D.2d 176 (N.Y. App. Div. 1987)

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