PEOPLE v. CONTRERAS


47 A.D.3d 411 (2008)

848 N.Y.S.2d 650

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. WALKINS CONTRERAS, Appellant.

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

Decided January 3, 2008.


The prosecutor disclosed to the court a note found in the victim's apartment at the time of the crime, involving graphic sexual matters. The court conducted an ex parte interview of the victim, in which she stated that she wrote the note a month before the incident, that it referred to her boyfriend, and that it had nothing to do with defendant, who was her former husband. The court permitted defense counsel to question the victim...

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