People v. Davenport
Decision Date | 15 April 2002 |
Docket Number | 2,98-06057 |
Parties | The People, etc., respondent, v Clint Davenport, appellant. (Ind./97 and 738/98) 1998-06057 1998-06066 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION: SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Submitted - |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Edward M. Gould, Islip, N.Y., for appellant.
Thomas J. Spota, District Attorney, Riverhead, N.Y. (Sean F. Conroy and Brian J. Counihan of counsel), for respondent.
DECISION & ORDER
SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, J.P.
GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN
GLORIA GOLDSTEIN
Appeal by the defendant from two judgments of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weber, J.), both rendered June 19, 1998, convicting him of sodomy in the first degree (two counts) and sexual abuse in the first degree (three counts) under Indictment No. 1476/97, and sodomy in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child under Indictment No. 738/98, upon jury verdicts, and imposing sentences.
ORDERED that the judgments are affirmed.
The defendant contends that the indictments were defective because the People did not seek an adjournment of the pending criminal court proceeding before presenting the case to the first Grand Jury. We disagree. CPL 170.20 provides, inter alia, that Although CPL 170.20 establishes a procedure which allows the People to obtain a stay of criminal court proceedings while a case is presented to the Grand Jury, it does not require that they seek such a stay as a condition precedent to presenting the case (see People v Bouyea, 172 Misc.2d 835; see also People v Miterko, 186 Misc.2d 337). Accordingly, there is no basis for dismissal of the indictments.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 N.Y.2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish that the defendant committed the crimes of sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree by means of forcible compulsion (see Penal Law §§ 130.50[1], 130.65[1]; People v Thompson, 72 N.Y.2d 410; People v Jackson, __ A.D.2d __ [3d Dept, Jan. 10, 2002]). The evidence was also legally sufficient to support the defendant's conviction of one additional count of sodomy in the first degree, and two additional counts of sexual abuse in the first degree, which were predicated upon the...
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