PEOPLE v. BROWN


261 A.D.2d 410 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 532

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMES BROWN, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided May 3, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The complainant's testimony that the defendant had killed his son-in-law several years before he raped and sodomized her and that the defendant had previously exhibited abusive behavior towards her was properly admitted to establish her state of mind for the purpose of proving the forcible compulsion element of these crimes (see, People v Cook, 93 N.Y.2d 840...

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